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Marianna Bacallao
All Things Considered host, WPLNMarianna Bacallao is a Cuban American journalist at WPLN and the new afternoon host for Nashville Public Radio. Before coming to Nashville, she was the morning host and general assignment reporter for WVIK Quad Cities NPR, where she hosted through a record-breaking wind storm that caused statewide power outages. A Georgia native, she was a contributor to Georgia Public Broadcasting during her undergrad years and served as editor-in-chief for Mercer University’s student newspaper.
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Tennessee delegates to the Democratic National Convention became some of the first to support Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee for president. The delegation moved quickly after President Biden announced he was ending his re-election bid.
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A federal appeals court has re-instated Tennessee’s restrictions on drag performances. Thursday’s order reverses a district court ruling last year, which had prevented the ban from taking effect.
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Tennessee is among several Republican-led states suing the Biden administration over new protections against sex discrimination for LGBTQ students.
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The Tennessee drag law that was struck down last year was written so broadly that it would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a law confirming that parents with anti-LGBTQ views are allowed to foster and adopt queer kids. The law comes after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule requiring LGBTQ foster kids to be placed in supportive environments.
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From a sign ban during the fall’s special legislative session, to this session’s new ticketing process, spectators have taken issue with Tennessee statehouse rules made behind closed doors. Now, a new proposal could eliminate one of the only avenues that constituents have for recourse: the courts.
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Tennessee ranks in the bottom five states for psychiatric bed space, according to a new report by the Treatment Advocacy Center.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Tennessee to stop enforcing a statute that discriminates against those living with HIV.
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Metro Councilmember Olivia Hill made history Monday night as the first openly transgender Tennessean to be sworn into office.