Eden Turner

Across Nashville, community service projects meet Thanksgiving needs

by Eden Turner ·November 27, 2025

A few days before his nonprofit's eighth annual Friendsgiving Event, Sheldon Diggs was busy preparing food at Community Care Fellowship in East Nashville.

Angie Hilt stirs mac and cheese at Community Care Fellowship in East Nashville for Friendsgiving on Nov. 22, 2025. (Martin B. Cherry / Nashville Banner)

Nashville writer spotlights the history of Black women battalion in WWII

by Eden Turner ·October 7, 2025

After her first daughter was born in 2015, Tonya Abari and her husband spent a lot of time in the library reading picture books. But she noticed the characters didn't look like her family.