👋 How to help your Nashville neighbors this month

🦃 The Best Things To Do in November!

On today’s City Cast Nashville podcast, we’re rounding up the best things to eat, hear, and do this month, from suggestions for Thanksgiving Day meals to ways to give back — and where you can get your yoga on. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🕜 Should School Start Times Change?

Metro Nashville Public Schools is partnering with Mayor O’Connell’s office to conduct a review of school start and end times to address student and family needs and transportation efficiency. In the coming weeks, MNPS will be providing opportunities for people to give feedback. The Board of Education will discuss and announce any changes in early 2026. [MNPS]

• What do you think about school start and end times? Email me with your thoughts!

👦🏿 The Child Care Center That’s Nearly a Century Old

North Nashville’s Eighteenth Avenue Family Enrichment Center has been in operation since 1934, and remains a vital source of community for Black children and families. The child care center, which serves many low-income families, helps parents enroll in benefits, and keeps tables full of donated items. [Nashville Banner]

• Centers like this are much-needed amid Nashville’s child care crisis. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🧑‍⚖️ News Organizations Sue Over Execution Protocol

Nashville Public Radio, The Associated Press, and other news organizations are suing Tennessee prison officials, claiming state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit media access. This follows the August execution of Byron Black, where media witnesses were blocked from seeing the entire execution process, “leaving the public with no account from a neutral observer.” [WPLN]