Dr. Jesse Register [youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBfnZ1P1luQ"] Dr. Nicholas Zeppos [youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16TLp3BrVME"] Join us Friday night, June 19, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. for the latest installments of NPT’s recurring public affairs series One on One with John Siegenthaler. In the first half hour, Seigenthaler sits down for a conversation with Nashville’s new Director of Public Schools, Dr. Jesse Register. [...]
SONS OF LWALA, winner of the NPT Human Spirit Award at the 2008 Nashville Film Festival, will get national attention on Friday night, January 30, 2009 when film principles Fred and Milton Ochieng’ will be named as the World News Person of the Week on the ABC Nightly News. Tune in between 5:45 pm and [...]
By Will Pedigo Photos by Erin McInnis Nashville’s Kurds are a significant part of the Kurdish Diaspora, and for some, the community here represents the Kurdish capital of North America. Several events in the past week have kept these Nashvillians riveted to television and internet news reports (nearly everyone in Nashville’s Kurdish community has satellite [...]
By Will Pedigo On January 31st 2008, Vanderbilt University hosted a panel discussion led by trial judges from the Iraqi High Tribunal. It was a big deal for Nashville. The Iraqi High Tribunal was created by the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003 to provide justice for the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein’s regime. It represents [...]
Great news! Friday night at BMI, NPT picked up ten nominations for the 22nd Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy® Awards, including four out of the five nominations in the “Non-News Promo Spot/Programs” category. One of those nominations is for the popular “Give the Gift of Membership” spot with Nashville musician Michael Webb playing the accordion. The [...]
The eyes of the nation will soon be on Nashville, its stunning Symphony Center, its world-class school of music and one of its favorite daughters. In case you missed the announcement last week, Belmont University graduate (’99) and American Idol finalist Melinda Doolittle will host the 2007 Christmas at Belmont concert, a production of Nashville [...]
Tonight on Bill Moyers Journal (NPT-Channel 8 at 8:00 p.m.), Moyers interviews executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Anthony D. Romero and former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards about new legislation expanding the government’s domestic surveillance program. Plus, Jack Goldsmith, former head the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department and author of [...]
Tonight at 8 p.m. central time on NPT-Channel 8 is the first of two “All-American Presidential Forums” on PBS to be moderated by Tavis Smiley. Tonight’s forum features the Democratic candidates — U.S. Senator Joe Biden, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, former U.S. Senator John Edwards, former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, U.S. [...]
A couple of tidbits today … The Associated Press reported yesterday that PBS and Ken Burns have agreed to amend Burns’ upcoming documentary series on World War II to include stories about Latino veterans “after activists complained he ignored their contributions to the American effort.” Burns will hire a Latino producer to assist with the [...]
I was caught off guard yesterday when I came across OPERATION HOMECOMING as a pick in the “FILM” section of Sunday’s New York Times “The Week Ahead.” The documentary, which has actors Robert Duvall, Aaron Eckhart and Josh Lucas doing voiceover readings of poems and letters by soldiers, airs on NPT-Channel 8 on Monday, April [...]
