🚨 Local ICE enforcement increases nearly 400%

Finding a Home in Nashville’s Food Scene

Nashville’s culinary scene is booming, thanks in part to transplants who’ve brought their out-of-state food traditions to our melting pot. The Food Section’s Nashville bureau chief Mark Blankenship joins the City Cast Nashville podcast team to highlight some faves. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

📹 Fusus Guardrails Pass, Move to Final Reading

Metro Council has approved a set of Fusus guardrails on second reading, and the legislation now moves to a third and final reading, despite heated opposition from Councilmember Ginny Welsch: “I don’t think there can be any guardrail when we’re giving up our privacy.” [Nashville Banner]

• Mayor O’Connell’s defense of Fusus [Nashville Scene]
• The Fusus controversy, explained [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🚨 Local ICE Enforcement Increases Nearly 400%

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents picked up nearly four times as many people from Nashville jails in February as in the same month last year. [Nashville Banner]

• Meanwhile, Afghan Nashvillians who served alongside the U.S. have been denied promised resettlement aid, and are worried about never reuniting with their families. [Nashville Banner]
• Your rights as an immigrant [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🧑‍⚖️ Local Women Advocate for Victims of Unlawful Photography

A group of Nashville women are fighting to get the Tennessee legislature to pass two bills aimed at expanding legal protections for victims of unlawful photography after their own traumatic experiences. [Nashville Scene]

Before it was a full-month celebration, there was Women’s History Week. In 1978, a group of women in Santa Rosa, California, recognized that women’s history was largely overlooked in academics, so they organized a week in March to celebrate and educate others about women’s contributions in the U.S.

During the week of March 8, over a hundred women participated in essay contests, distributed curriculum materials at local schools, and held a parade. The event's success soon inspired women’s groups nationwide to hold similar events.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8 National Women’s History Week. Seven years later, Congress designated March as Women’s History Month.

Why We Celebrate in March

The group from Santa Rosa, now known as the National Women’s History Alliance, selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day, officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977.

This month’s celebration is also rooted in socialist and labor movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first Women’s Day on Feb. 28, 1909, honored the first anniversary of the garment worker’s strikes that saw thousands of women take to Manhattan’s streets. That strike was timed to honor another garment worker’s rally from March 1857. On March 3, 1913, thousands of suffrage activists marched in Washington, D.C., to fight for a woman’s right to vote.

In 1911, inspired by the day of recognition held in the U.S., more than a million people rallied in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland to hold the first International Women’s Day rally. On March 8, 1917, many women went on strike during the Russian Revolution, which many believe led to the selection of March 8 as the international day.

This year’s theme is “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations.” Here are some ways to honor women this month.