Demonstrators in Nashville called for the ICE agent who fatally shot a woman to be arrested, and for the end of immigration enforcement operations in Nashville.

Audio storytelling is distinctive in its ability to capture the emotion in the voices of people impacted by worldwide issues. WPLN reporter Rose Gilbert accomplishes that in her podcast The

My first impression of Halabja is of narrow, mostly empty streets; I imagine everyone is inside somewhere, out of the blazing sun. I have a chance to interview Mayor Nuxsha Nasih, who made headlines i...

A small town in rural Tennessee will soon be the site of a privately-run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. The town of Mason’s 600-bed

A new podcast from WPLN News The story of how Nashville became home to the largest Kurdish diaspora in America is an epic one. A tale of bloody genocide, of

A new podcast from WPLN News The story of how Nashville became home to the largest Kurdish diaspora in America is an epic one. A tale of bloody genocide, of

A new podcast from WPLN News The story of how Nashville became home to the largest Kurdish diaspora in America is an epic one. A tale of bloody genocide, of

Fewer people identify as Southern Baptists, and fewer churches are a part of the Nashville-based denomination, according to an annual report.

In this first travelogue from WPLN's Rose Gilbert, we arrive with her in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, for her five-week reporting trip.

Last week, WPLN told you about the Muslim-owned coffee houses leading Nashville’s sober nightlife scene during, and after, Ramadan. One of them was Deir Cafe, a Palestinian-owned shop. One week later,...

A handful of Muslim-owned shops in Nashville want to make sober nightlife cafe culture a year-round thing.

Tennessee’s ban on drag in public spaces will remain in effect, as the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to take up a legal challenge to the law. Another suit could give LGTBQ advocates another shot at chall...

Tennessee schools would be able to refuse undocumented students, under a new proposal from Republican leaders in the statehouse. The measure goes against U.S. S

President-elect Donald Trump has a complicated track record when it comes to Kurdistan. During his first term in office, he declined to support Iraqi Kurdistan’s 2017 independence referendum and passe...

For Nashville's Kurdish community — a people whose culture has historically come under fire — clothing is a tangible way of preserving their traditions.

U.S. Army intelligence analyst Korbein Schultz has been arrested and indicted for charges including bribery and selling national defense information to China.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has joined a coalition of 24 conservative states in an effort to overturn a recent U.S. Supreme Court order

First-time political candidates are often spurred into action by personal experiences. Three new Democratic candidates on the ballot this fall in

This weekend, Governor Bill Lee is headed to Texas as the state's governor, Greg Abbott, defies a Supreme Court decision to remove razor wire at the

A group of anti-abortion protestors who blockaded a Mt. Juliet reproductive care clinic were found guilty of several felonies by a federal jury on