The Promise
A Peabody Award-winning series from Nashville Public Radio about inequality and the people trying to rise above it, with host and reporter Meribah Knight. In Season 1 of The Promise, we told the story of Nashville's largest public housing complex, smack in the middle of a city on the rise. In Season 2, we explore how that divide reveals itself in the classroom. One neighborhood, two schools — one black and poor, the other white and well-off, and the kids stuck in the middle.
Notable Guests
Episodes (94)
The Debt: What Tennessee Owes Its HBCU
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Listen: The Country In Our Hearts
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WPLN News & NPR's Embedded present: "Supermajority"
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Preview: "Making Noise" from WPLN and WNXP
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Bonus: How one police chief struggled to change the system
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Dedicated Public Servants | The Kids of Rutherford County
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Bonus: Rutherford County is not alone. This youth detention center superintenden...
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Bonus: Behind the music of The Kids of Rutherford County
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Would You Like to Sue the Government? | The Kids of Rutherford County
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What the Hell Are You People Doing? | The Kids of Rutherford County
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Bonus: Locked up and treated ‘like I’m a dog'
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The Egregious Video | The Kids of Rutherford County
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Coming Soon: The Kids of Rutherford County
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Coming Soon: Behind The Blue Wall
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The Final Exam
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The Recruitment Divide
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A Reckoning
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Warner's Hope
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What You Can't Unsee
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The Unraveling
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The Nashville Way
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A Tale Of Two Schools
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Season 2 Coming Soon
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Update: Letting Go
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Bonus 2: The Big Man Interview
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Bonus
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Part 6: The Future
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Part 5: Get Some Gone
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Part 4: The Great Divide
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Part 3: The People And The Police
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Part 2: A Beautiful Day In The Projects
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Part 1: A Change is Gonna Come
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Coming Soon: The Promise
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