{"id":13245,"date":"2020-09-16T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=13245"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:56:45","slug":"jefferson-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2020\/09\/16\/jefferson-street\/","title":{"rendered":"NPT&#8217;s &#8216;Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville&#8217; premieres Sept. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jefferson-St-Art-End-Card-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville\" class=\"wp-image-13248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jefferson-St-Art-End-Card-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jefferson-St-Art-End-Card-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jefferson-St-Art-End-Card-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jefferson-St-Art-End-Card-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jefferson-St-Art-End-Card-1-540x304.png 540w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jefferson-St-Art-End-Card-1-1080x608.png 1080w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jefferson-St-Art-End-Card-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jefferson Street is a fabled area of Nashville, known as the cultural center of the city\u2019s African American community. Once a haven for former slaves, it is home to three iconic HBCUs \u2013 Fisk University, Meharry Medical College and Tennessee State University \u2013 that educated doctors, lawyers and civic leaders. Students from these institutions led peaceful and effective civil rights protests in the 1960s. NPT\u2019s <strong>Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville <\/strong>premieres on-air and online <strong>Monday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m.<\/strong> The story of the North Nashville community is told by longtime residents and historians, as well as through archival and family photographs and film clips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJefferson Street represented a cross section of what the American dream would have looked like for many African Americans coming out of slavery,\u201d Tennessee State University\u2019s Dr. Learotha Williams Jr. says in<strong> Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This documentary conveys what Jefferson Street life was like over the decades, including during segregation, highlighting the importance of home and business ownership, and spiritual life as the home of some of Nashville\u2019s oldest Black churches. Jefferson Street\u2019s thriving music scene of the 1940s through 1960s is also covered. Like many African American centers, this one was forever changed by interstate construction and urban renewal programs and now struggles to balance rejuvenation with gentrification amid new economic pressures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"pbs-viral-player-wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px); margin-bottom: 1em;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/3046414994\/\" allowfullscreen style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville<\/strong> was produced by NPT\u2019s LaTonya Turner, whose previous work includes <strong>NPT Reports: Whose Music?,<\/strong> <strong>Aging Matters<\/strong> documentaries and <strong>The Early Black Press: Tennessee Voices Lifted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI consider this production to be a social history of the Jefferson Street community,\u201d Turner said. \u201c It was really important to me for the story to be told authentically and organically through those who know it best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TSU alumna Kayla Todd served as production assistant on <strong>Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The documentary re-airs Friday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. on NPT; and Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 8 a.m.; Thursday, Sept. 24, at 1 p.m.; and Friday, Oct. 2, at 11 p.m. on NPT2. The documentary will be available for streaming at <a href=\"https:\/\/video.wnpt.org\/show\/facing-north-jefferson-street-nashville\/\">video.wnpt.org\/show\/facing-north-jefferson-street-nashville<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <strong>Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville<\/strong> attorney and former Metro councilmember Ed Kindall recalls growing up along a vibrant Jefferson Street corridor. \u201cYou felt more welcomed here, because downtown, as you well know, some places you couldn\u2019t sit down and eat,\u201d Kindall says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandra Harris reminisces about having an Easter portrait taken at a neighborhood studio and attending high school dances held in Meharry\u2019s cafeteria. Now vice dean and associate professor at Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, Dr. Harris also shares family history \u2013 her great-grandfather, Dr. Richard Harris, was the first Black trustee of Fisk University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lorenzo Washington did not want Jefferson Street\u2019s musical history and significance to be lost, so he founded the Jefferson Street Sound Museum. (Washington and the museum are also featured in a <strong>Tennessee Crossroads<\/strong> segment airing Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 20, at 10 a.m.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of historical and iconic figures are referenced in <strong>Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville <\/strong>in relation to their appearances or work on Jefferson Street. Among them are Frederick Douglass; suffragist J. Frankie Pierce; entertainers Ray Charles and Jimi Hendrix; boxers Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; activist Stokely Carmichael; Negro League baseball teams; and the original Fisk Jubilee Singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJefferson Street is one of the examples of key African-American commercial streets where the history has been neglected, or lost, stolen, or strayed, \u201c retired TSU professor Dr. Bobby Lovett says in the documentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other historians appearing in the documentary are: Crystal deGregory, Ph.D., research fellow,&nbsp;Center for Historic Preservation, MTSU; James C.&nbsp;Fraser, Ph.D., visiting professor and scholar-in-residence at the University of Minnesota\u2019s&nbsp;Center for Urban and Regional Affairs; Brigette Jones, Curator of Social&nbsp;History, Tennessee State Museum; and&nbsp;Carroll Van West, Ph.D., Tennessee State Historian and Director of Center for Historic Preservation, MTSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville<\/strong> is not merely a historical account of Jefferson Street, it is also a look at the evolving community as residents confront challenge after challenge. From the construction of I-40, recent gentrification and in this year alone \u2013 natural destruction and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the documentary begins with Antoine Gaines surveying the damage to his house after the March 2020 tornadoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the tornadoes, Elisheba Israel Mrozik helped set up a station to provide food and other assistance. \u201cWe just wanted to make sure that the people over here on this side of town are going to get what they need from the community, because they\u2019ve been systematically neglected for so long in this area,\u201d she says in <strong>Facing North: Jefferson Street, Nashville.<\/strong> Mrozik is the owner of One Drop Ink Tattoo, &nbsp;a newcomer to the area, she is determined to help preserve the community\u2019s history and to provide support services for residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNone of us anticipated the March tornado or the coronavirus when this project began. But those events wound up being so reflective of the story \u2013 how outside forces, natural and manmade, have repeatedly disrupted a once stable, vibrant and culturally rich community,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know development is going to come,\u201d says Aleathea Harris Little, the fourth generation of her family to live on Jefferson Street, in a house that belonged to her great-grandmother. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think it should eradicate our history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fixed-2-jefferson-street-funders-press-1024x534.jpg\" alt=\"NPT's Jefferson Street Funders\" class=\"wp-image-13315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fixed-2-jefferson-street-funders-press-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fixed-2-jefferson-street-funders-press-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fixed-2-jefferson-street-funders-press-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fixed-2-jefferson-street-funders-press-1536x802.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fixed-2-jefferson-street-funders-press-540x282.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fixed-2-jefferson-street-funders-press-1080x564.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fixed-2-jefferson-street-funders-press.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson Street is a fabled area of Nashville, known as the cultural center of the city\u2019s African American community. 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