My guest was Ashford Hughes, executive officer for diversity, equity and inclusion at Metro Nashville Public Schools. Before that, Hughes served as the city s chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer under former Mayor David Briley.
Hughes and I will discussed his ongoing mission of creating equity in both Metro schools and Nashville as a whole, and other topics such as voter suppression and early childhood literacy. This conversation is the first in a series dedicated to showcasing the powerful voices in our group.
Since late 2020, the Black Tennessee Voices initiative has highlighted and promoted the strong and powerful Black Voices our community has to offer.
One-hour special examines Tennessee s Broken juvenile justice system
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Broken, a special report that airs in prime time on NewsChannel 5, takes an in-depth look at the station s unprecedented investigation of Tennessee s juvenile justice system.
The one-hour special airs tonight, Tuesday, Dec. 29th at 9 p.m. on NewsChannel 5.
âBrokenâ has been an 18-month effort led by chief investigative reporter Phil Williams and photojournalist Bryan Staples, who were joined by every member of the
NewsChannel 5 Investigates team and other journalists who have extensively reported on juvenile crime in our city.
The goal of the project: we did not want viewers to just see offenders or âbad kids,â as TV news often portrays them. Instead, this series of stories invited our viewers to âsee the childâ failed by the system.