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Speaker: Reverend Stacy Rector, Executive Director of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, shared the TADP mission and disheartening data on the current TN Death Row situation. TADP works to honor life through education and citizen advocacy efforts that...

Speaker: Judge Andra Hedrick about Davidson County Probate Court. As Judge Hedrick discussed, probate court is an incredibly busy court. In a typical month,150-200 new cases are filed in the probate court. Each case requires at least one hearing to be conducted by...

Speakers: Joseph Woodson, Board member and Advocacy Chair of the Tennessee Pride Chamber and Chris Sanders of the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP). Speaker Sanders pointed out, progress is not always linear. "It advances, retreats, twists. and turns and this is why...

Speakers: Dr. Angela Sutton and Mr. Cyril Stewart. Fort Negley began as a Union fortification built by nearly 5000 laborers, including free blacks, enslaved persons, as well as "contraband" folks seeking refuge in Nashville during the Civil War. The working and...

Speaker: Juvenile Court Clerk Lonnell Matthews, Jr. and Judge Sheila Calloway, his self-proclaimed "Partner in Justice." The speakers focused on shifting the culture of the juvenile court systems and operations to prepare for the opening of the Nashville Youth Campus...