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One On One With `Contributor` Exec Director Explores Success of Nation`s Largest Street Paper
I got my most recent copy of The Contributor from Don at the Corner of Broadway and 13th Street in downtown Nashville, as soon you exit off Interstate 40. He wished me and my mother a blessed day, and when I immediately got caught up reading the cover story, informed me that the light had [...]
The Southern Festival of Books Takes Place October 12-14.
One our favorite cultural events of the year takes place this weekend, October 12-14 at the Legislative Plaza. The Southern Festival of Books is a free event that offers “readers and writers an opportunity to interact, and create a public community that promotes and celebrates the joy of reading and of lifelong learning.” In short, [...]
Screenings and Civil War Songs and More: an Amazing May at NPT
There’s always plenty going on here at NPT, both on and off-air, but May is particularly busy with screenings and special broadcasts. Here’s a quick round-up: May could easily be called “Freedom Riders Month” with the many events going on to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the historic rides. In addition to the national American [...]
The Thirteen Novels Every American Should Read
In honor of its 50th anniversary, we recently reread Harper Lee’s iconic To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was even more amazing than we remembered, and our first thought when finishing it was, “wow, we wish every American would read this.” We started thinking of other books, novels especially, that we thought every American should [...]
Film on Freedom Riders to World Premiere at Sundance
Back in March of this year, we told you director Stanley Nelson was in town to interview several Nashville-based individuals who were involved with The Freedom Riders in 1961, among them the host of NPT’s A Word on Words, John Seigenthaler, Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Frederick Leonard and Reverend James Lawson. The interviews were being conducted [...]
Updated with Video: Register and Zeppos Go One on One with John Seigenthaler
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. [...]
American Experience to Mark 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Riders
The year 2011 will mark 50 years since the Freedom Riders, groups of blacks and whites traveling together from Washington D.C. into segregated Southern states, made their courageous and inspiring journeys. The iconic PBS series American Experience is scheduled to commemorate the anniversary with a special episode that year. Producers from Firelight Media are in [...]
Podcast of John Updike on A Word on Words
The tributes to the late John Updike have been all over the media these last few days, including a wonderful one by Charles McGrath in Sunday’s New York Times Week in Review. McGrath was sometimes Updike’s editor at The New Yorker. “His gifts were his eye and his sensibility,” writes McGrath, “which enabled him to [...]
(Video) Perspectives: The English Language Referendum
As we told you yesterday, tonight’s the night for PERSPECTIVES: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE REFERENDUM, a live discussion on the merits of the “English Only/English First” Amendment (opponents refer to it as “only,” proponents, “first”) that Davidson County voters must choose to vote for or against on January 22. Tonight’s live broadcast at 7:00 p.m., where [...]
(NPT News) NPT to Host Live Discussion on English Language Referendum
Here’s the official release on tomorrow night’s (1/16) live show on NPT-Channel 8 on the English Language Referendum. Be sure to check back tomorrow morning about 10 a.m. Central to get an advance look at the video that will open the show. For Immediate Release January 15, 2009 NPT to Host Live Discussion on English [...]
