Throughline - The Emancipator

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Throughline | Margaret Littman
Jefferson Street jams
The history of Nashville’s historic Club Baron is being saved by an unlikely multiracial collaboration. Located in what is now an Elks Lodge, the stage hosted iconic performers like Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, but had fallen into disrepair.

Throughline | Margaret Littman
Nashville’s historic Woolworth building is in trouble
The history of this site, where Rep. John Lewis’ first arrest in student-led sit-ins that helped lead to desegregation of restaurants across the country, is being erased by its new owners. These stories need to be preserved.

Throughline | Jeffrey Boutwell
Time for a New Emancipation Proclamation
The dynamics of how best to maximize Black voting power remain the same as they were on Great Emancipation Day 1903 when William Monroe Trotter and former Massachusetts Gov. George S. Boutwell, an architect of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th and 15th amendments, called for a New Emancipation Proclamation.

Throughline | Kimberly Atkins Stohr
Jan. 6 committee leaves crucial lessons about race unspoken
The most striking thing about Monday’s final public meeting of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol was what wasn’t said.

Throughline | Paul Lewis
Poetry and the struggle for justice
Early American abolitionists used the storytelling artistry of poetry as a way to dismantle White supremacist thinking. Paul Lewis dissects an 1820 poem published in the original Emancipator called “Far in a gloomy desart, waste and wild.”