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BET Digital released Flipped, a short-form documentary chronicling Fisk University’s groundbreaking launch of the first HBCU women’s collegiate gymnastics team in 2023. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper, the film traces the program from its founding through its growth into a competitive team. Fisk, a historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee, made national headlines […]
Source: BET News Published: March 27, 2026 Nashville resident Ruby Cosby says Southwest Airlines canceled her ticket at the gate on February 28 because she did not purchase a second seat to accommodate her size, nearly causing her to miss a cruise to Mexico. Cosby said she has always flown Southwest without any problems and […]
The 40th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards airs August 30 on the Stellar Network and August 31 on BET, celebrating “Our Music, Our Voice, Our Culture.” Hosted by BeBe & CeCe Winans, the event will feature performances from gospel greats like Tasha Cobbs Leonard and Jonathan McReynolds. Don Jackson, founder of the Stellar Network, will […]
David Aaron Bloyed, 60, of Frost, Texas, was convicted of interstate communication of a threat after posting violent and antisemitic imagery directed at Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk. The threats came following an altercation between a neo-Nazi group and a bar worker in downtown Nashville, where one group member used a swastika-topped flagpole to assault […]
On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, tragedy unfolded at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, when 17-year-old student Solomon Henderson fatally shot 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante in the cafeteria before taking his own life. Another student sustained a minor bullet graze, and a third was injured during the chaos. Authorities are investigating Henderson’s social media posts […]
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame musician Jon Bon Jovi helped prevent a potential tragedy on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in Nashville. While filming a music video on the bridge, Bon Jovi and a video production assistant encountered a woman standing on the ledge. The assistant began talking to the woman, and Bon Jovi slowly […]
Saturday, a small jet carrying seven people crashed into the Percy Priest Lake in Smyrna, a town outside of Nashville. All seven that were on board are persumed dead, including Remnant Fellowship Church founder and Christian diet guru, Gwen Shamblin Lara. CNN reported more on who was aboard and stated: “On board were Lara; her […]
Authorities said a plane carrying 7 people crashed into a lake near Nashville killing at least one passenger. Rutherford County Public Information Officer, Ashley McDonald, shared the plane, Cessna C501, took flight about 12 miles south of Nashville. McDonald also shared that they do not know who was aboard the flight. They are also not […]
Saturday night, Nashville Mayor John Cooper signed executive orders that put the city into a state of emergency after flash flooding killed at least 4 people. He followed up by tweeting: “We send our deepest sympathies to the loved ones of the four Nashvillians who died in last night’s flooding,” Cooper said in separate post […]
On New Years Day, two base jumpers who were staying at the Grand Hyatt Nashville Hotel went to the rooftop bar and calmly walked off the building, frightening patrons and sending them into a ‘mass panic.’ Nashville’s own Amanda Bagley was catching up with friends at the bar when “a couple of guys base jumped […]
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