Iâll Take You There Is an Unflinching Exploration of Nashvilleâs Social Justice Sites Editors Amie Thurber and Learotha Williamsâ guide to the city draws on the knowledge of more than 100 Nashvillians Tweet Share
âYou have in your hands a different sort of guidebook,â promises the first line of
. âIn place of offering a single voice and perspective on the city,â editors Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams write, âwe offer a multitude, and intentionally privilege the perspectives of those most directly impacted by injustice in the city.â Privileging these voices may, at first, seem to represent an alternative history â another way of understanding Nashville. But as the work progresses, offering perspectives of more than 100 local contributors, the purpose becomes clear: This is not just âalternative history.â Instead, it is an unflinching, full story â one that transcends niceties and commits
Juliana Ospina Cano is executive director of Conexión Américas.
The United States recognizes April as Financial Literacy Month, but more painfully, April marks the thirteenth month of lives being forever altered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It brings into acute focus the financial fragility of many Americans which has been exacerbated by the pandemic.
Of the 15% of Americans who reported losing a job because of the pandemic, lower-income adults were disproportionately unemployed, according to research conducted by Pew during the heart of the pandemic.
Some 56% of workers with lower incomes who lost their job because of the coronavirus outbreak said they were currently unemployed, compared with 42% of middle- and upper-income adults.[1]