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Andrea Williams

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(ON-dree-uh) Columnist at The Tennessean | Author | Words in NYTimes, New York Mag, Sports Illustrated, etc. INSIDE THE PARK out NOW! Send tips/say hi: adwilliams@tennessean.com

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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I have always said that if country music will openly treat white women the way it does (see thread below), Black folks can hang it up. (Also that it’s particularly shameful, but not at all surprising, that white women help run the industry that oppresses them.)
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Today show some support to an author who is important to you. Send a message on social media or the contact form on their website. Bonus points if their books are being banned. Bonus bonus points if they're from a community that is being targeted. Cannot overstate how meaningful these notes can be.
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Phee explaining what the players mean with the word "owe" "The players (are) building this brand and this league. This is no league without the players. We feel like we are owed a piece of that pie that we helped to create."
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
So silly of MLB Commish Robert Manfred to say that Jackie Robinson’s legacy transcends DEI debate when Jackie, himself, is the quintessential DEI hire. In fact, to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day is to celebrate DEI initiatives. My latest: www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
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Jackie Robinson is a Civil Rights hero. DEI helped him make history | Opinion
Branch Rickey knew that signing Jackie Robinson as the first Black player in Major League Baseball’s modern era was a potentially risky endeavor.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
YES
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Big beef adopting the oil and gas playbook to create disinformation, doubt and culture war controversy over the need to change diets Legacy industries will happily destroy everything just so long as they can keep growing
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
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City Cast Nashville @citycastnash.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
How much free stuff can you get with a Nashville Public Library card? A LOT OF FREE STUFF. NPL’s Andrea Fanta gives us the scoop, in case you might be looking to save some money right now. Ya know. For reasons.
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11 Freebies You Can Snag With Your Library Card - City Cast Nashville
The Nashville Public Library has books, but did you know it also has cake pans, stud finders, and musical instruments? H...
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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
My Black Nashville in History and Memory course had class today in the Public Square. Topics discussed included Early Black Nashville, Nashville as a center of the slave trade, and TSU’s significant role in the struggle for Black equality. #StudyHistory #ReadAllTheBooks📚 #ShareOurStories #HBCU
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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The column so depressing I thought my parents had hung up on me because the silence after I finished reading it to them went on so long. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
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The Book Ecosystem in Tennessee Is Under Serious Threat
Trump's cuts could kill off the ecosystem of writers, historians, museums and libraries that sustains us
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🖤
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
👀👀👀
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Carrie Muir @cmuirmath.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Watched the documentary "Counted Out" this evening as a part of @justequations.bsky.social Mathematics of Opportunity conference. Definitely recommend attending a screening if you have the chance. #TMO25 #ITeachMath #MathSky
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Counted Out
Counted Out is a math documentary that investigates the biggest crises of our time—political polarization, racial and economic inequity, a global pandemic, and climate change—through an unexpected len...
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The Davidson County Grand Jury conducted its own inquiry into the whistleblower complaint brought last year against Nashville police, concluding “there is evidence of criminal and civil violations which should be meticulously investigated” by a special prosecutor. nashvillebanner.com/2025/04/04/d...
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Grand Jury Report on MNPD Whistleblower Complaint - Nashville Banner
Davidson County Grand Jury finds evidence of criminal and civil violations within Metro Nashville Police Department. Special prosecutor recommended.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Hi!!
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 06/04/2025
Duke had a 92.7% chance to win with 1:26 left in the game, according to ESPN. Houston went on an 11-1 run in the final 1:14 to fuel a comeback for the ages and send the Cougars to the National Championship 🤯
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 06/04/2025
Kelvin Sampson had a message for people who doubted the Houston Cougars. "We weren't 34-4 playing in the Toy Poodle League. We were 19-1 in the Big 12."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/04/2025
I just sent my newsletter, one day late, because I was making a PDF downloadable tariff explainer for normal people who are not plugged into a newsfeed. view.flodesk.com/ema...
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Ashley Bachelder @aebachelder.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I’m barely on this app (or any app) these days, but come see me here
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Lots of talk about the lack of Cinderellas this year, but this is a smart, and accurate!, way to flip that narrative.
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Christina Samuels @casamuels.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hours after we published this story on our site we received news that staffers in five of Head Start's 10 regional offices were put on leave. We're trying to track the on-the-ground implications -- please email me at samuels@hechingerreport.org or Signal cas.37 hechingerreport.org/head-start-i...
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Head Start is turning 60. Will the federal child care program make it to 61?
Providers operating on ‘razor-thin margins’ worry about the possibility of deep cuts
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
But physical intimidation helps Pearson’s? (Is there where I invoke “emotion” and tell you to “stop looking down on me”?)
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Lots of assumptions here, but if that’s what helps you deal with your emotions, have at it I guess
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
So he should’ve stormed the dais? The theater comment is re the overall state of politics, on both sides. IMO, a tolerance of theatrics begets Pearson’s physical actions. Ie, he coulda stayed at the mic all day
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
You can absolutely write your opinion, and email to me at the address in my bio.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Everybody has a role. As a columnist, mine is different from pearson’s, which is different from an activist’s or an attorney’s. We’ve just forgotten this bc we’ve been confused by the theatrical nature of modern politics.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
To the people in power? Who should, but don’t have to listen? I hear you, but history shows that it’s the “power-less” who drive change. Re gun regulation, if the need is legislation, isn’t it important that Pearson be effective as a legislator? Do his actions hurt or help his bills?
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If the only recourse at this point is physical intimidation, Dems are more cooked than anyone realizes and everyone should get real, real comfortable with the red supermajority. (And maybe jump in the GOP primaries to vote for better Republicans)
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
TN Writers | TN Stories: Serina Gilbert and @learothawms.bsky.social, From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land (Vanderbilt University Press) in conversation with TBA tnmuseum.org/calendar-of-...
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TN Writers | TN Stories: Serina Gilbert and Learotha Williams, From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land (Vanderbilt University Press) in conversation with TBA
<p class="MsoNormal"><em>Book cover image forthcoming.</em></p> <p>The Promise Land community, a small village west of Nashville, Tennessee was founded after the Civil War by people who had been ensla...
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The one who “got in the face” was Pearson. Hence, my column.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tap dancing? You don’t know me at all. You also doing a lot to justify physical intimidation. For the record, this piece doesn’t get written if he stayed at the mic, but I take this to mean you’re mad at his colleagues who pulled him back too. Also, the word I used was strategy, not decorum.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I… didn’t make the comparisons; I’m referencing them. Are you not aware what’s been said about him?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I think I understand the confusion now. I wrote regarding his effectiveness as a legislator (which is needed now more than ever), not as an orator. Whoops.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
1) Who’s “they”? 2) Read more of my work.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NO ONE can make a verbal argument physical by rushing up in another adult’s face. But it sounds like you’re saying that Democrats actually can? Does the super minority grant that freedom? Since you agree with his politics all behavior is fair game?
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Not an insult at all. And I was direct—directly setting up the next section of my column, wherein I draw parallels to the Movement, bc Pearson, himself, has welcomed the comparisons.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good thing you’re not in the legislature. Pearson, however, is.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
You sure? Is that the advice you’d give your brother, husband, son when he’s mad at work? And what happens when the racist whites call Pearson a thug? What say you then?
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
For what it’s worth, I literally addressed this kind of response—your post, the comments—bc I expected it. It’s unfortunate that we can’t hold each other accountable, no matter what “side” we’re on. Unless you think it’s okay that he rushed Farmer like that?
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Nah. I wrote it because he literally rushed into another grown man’s face, and during a legislative session no less.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It’s #OpeningDay and the perfect time to remind you about INSIDE THE PARK, my latest middle grade novel that’s perfect for young baseball fans! www.harpercollins.com/products/ins...
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Inside the Park
Inside the Park has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It’s #OpeningDay and the perfect time to remind you about INSIDE THE PARK, my latest middle grade novel that’s perfect for young baseball fans! www.harpercollins.com/products/ins...
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Inside the Park
Inside the Park has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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Duane Gang @duanegang.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Really nice storytelling from @chriskenning.bsky.social & @usatoday.com about figure skating's twin disasters and how the sport is drawing upon its past as it recovers from the DC crash. At the world championships last night, there was a tribute to the victims. www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...
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Not us. Not again. How figure skating’s past is inspiring its recovery from the DC crash
Figure skating’s world championships are underway this week in Boston, a city that carries visceral memories of the sport’s improbable twin disasters.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#tdih 1961 In Jackson, Mississippi, 9 Tougaloo College students & members of the local NAACP Youth Council staged a READ-IN to protest lack of access to Jackson Public Library. #CivilDisobedience They paid taxes for a "public" library they could not use. ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
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March 27, 1961: Jackson, Mississippi Library Sit-In
Nine Tougaloo College students and members of the Jackson Youth Council of the NAACP staged a sit-in to protest segregation at the Jackson Public Library in 1961 and were subsequently arrested.
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Andrea Williams @andreawillwrite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I subscribe to OOYL and was so happy to see you there today!
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