Sophie Murguia @sophiemurguia.bsky.social deputy managing editor at Mother Jones. pitch me: smurguia@motherjones.com
Cheyanne Mumphrey @cheymumph.bsky.social National Education Reporter at the Associated Press
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Chris Barton @bartography.bsky.social Author—THE DAY-GLO BROTHERS, SHARK VS. TRAIN, WHOOSH! & WE MATCH! Freelance editor—fiction/nonfiction. President—Texas Institute of Letters. Loves visiting schools. https://linktr.ee/bartography
Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social Columnist for USA TODAY Sports, writing about little bit of everything. Runner; book lover; Starbucks junkie.
@charlesmckinney.bsky.social @charlesmckinney.bsky.social Father. Husband. Son.
Professor of History and Africana Studies, Rhodes College. Think and write about Civil Rights, Black Politics, MLK and the pursuit of Greater Freedom.
Semi-retired Saxophone player. Closeted Poet.
Never Post-Black. 
Flagrant Mag @flagrantmag.com A basketball + art magazine for hoop lovers. Community over everything. Digital is dead.
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allmyhomiesareclassconscious @mcherry.bsky.social Born and Raised East Nashvillian.
Disgruntled Service Worker.
Troubling to the State.
Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social Parent-founded. Parent-led. Defending the right to read & supporting the fight against book bans in our public schools & communities.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Annie Costabile @anniecostabile.bsky.social National women's basketball writer at The Athletic
Lindsay Gibbs @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social Author/Founder of Power Plays, a no-BS newsletter about women’s sports. Subscribe here: powerplays.news
Women's Sports Lead, CBS Sports
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No Cap Space WBB @nocapspacewbb.com All ball. No lies.
Five Journalists Covering Women’s Basketball Everywhere It’s Played.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Wendi C. Thomas @wendicthomas.bsky.social Journalist. Disrupter. Dreamer. Dog mom. MLK50.com founder. ProPublica fellow. Memphis is home. 💚💕💚💕
jf @jfjfjfjfjfjfjfjf.bsky.social 
Marcia Kochel @overbooked.bsky.social A middle school librarian on a mission to bring age-appropriate books to 13-15 year olds #youngteenlit
My manifesto is here: https://teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2024/05/30/a-manifesto-in-support-of-middle-school-books-a-guest-post-by-marcia-kochel/
Carrie @carrieat.bsky.social 
Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Washingtonian | Alum and bylines, many places | To pitch me: phruby@washingtonian.com | To reach me: www.patrickhruby.net
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Kelly McClure @wolfievibes.bsky.social 💻 Senior Culture Editor at salon.com, currently in my Natty Gann era. https://www.kellymcclurewritesstuff.com/
kelly…kitty? @kellykitty.bsky.social 🇵🇸 | Nashville | usually yapping about homelessness, poverty & policing | my brain has a million tabs open at all times | opinions are mine + are never ending
Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social Author of MOSES AND THE DOCTOR (USA Today bestseller) and OUR TEAM (on Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Bob Feller) lukeepplin.com Contact: lepplin@gmail.com
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
Maurice Patton @mopattonsports.bsky.social Nashville area sports media presence ... '21 TSWA HoF … '21 NSMA Tenn Sports Writer of the Year ... #BON22 …. Posts re: sports content, others as warranted ...
Charles B. Fancher @cbfancher.bsky.social Author, former Journalist, Consultant, Howard University School of Communications faculty. NAACP Image Award winning historical novel, RED CLAY, from Blackstone Publishing https://www.blackstonepublishing.com/products/book-gt5d
Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on U Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Co-host @burnitalldownpod.com. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social 2025-26 Pulliam Fellow exploring intersection of sports, transportation and environmental justice
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Candace Buckner @candacedbuckner.bsky.social Sports columnist at The Athletic.
Brad Snyder @bradsnyderprof.bsky.social Georgetown Law professor. Author of You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads. W.W. Norton. Books on Felix Frankfurter, House of Truth, Curt Flood, Grays.
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Tracie Canada @traciecanada.bsky.social anthropologist of race and sport | ambivalent college football fan | assistant professor | she/her
www.traciecanada.com
www.theheartslab.com
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social Husband. Dad. History prof at MSU (F25). Author of I Fight for a Living, We Will Win the Day, and The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback.
profloumoore.com
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social Librarian. NYT Bestselling Author. | LOUDER THAN HUNGER, RUTHIE ROSE’S BIG IDEA, THE GIFT OF STORY, THIS IS A SCHOOL, THIS IS A STORY | Agent: Molly O'Neill
Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social Liberal talking head (co-host of The Five on Fox News) and excellent mom if I do say so myself. Democracy enthusiast. Perusing the blue skies. 
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
Raging Moderates @ragingmoderates.bsky.social Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov are here to give those of us who reside somewhere between the center left and the center right their takes on the latest politics all through a centrist lens. New Episodes every Wednesday and Friday.
It's Time for Young Teen Lit @youngteenlit.bsky.social We believe 12-15 year olds need books published just for them. Moderated by Christina Chatel & Marcia Kochel, MS librarians who implore the publishing industry for books meant for grades 6-9. #youngteenlit #itstimeforyoungteenlit www.youngteenlit.com
Christina Chatel @medialoguer.bsky.social Middle school librarian in Troy, MI. Advocate for #youngteenlit. Author of “An Open Letter to Middle Grade Authors and Publishers Regarding Book Length.” #Troybery2025 bit.ly/whatistroybery
Brittney McKenna @brittneymckenna.bsky.social writer at apple music, bbc, billboard, forbes, nashville scene, npr music, rolling stone, vinyl me please, elsewhere
she/her
Ms. Yingling @msyingling.bsky.social Middle school #librarian who has read EVERY fiction book in my #SchoolLibrary. Posts a new #MGLit book review EVERY DAY at http://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com, where I've been since 2006. 👍📚
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world.
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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Gentry Estes @gentryestes.bsky.social Sports Columnist at The Tennessean.
https://www.tennessean.com/staff/2647735001/gentry-estes/
Tired of being clever. Everybody’s clever these days.
Erin Entrada Kelly @erinentrada.bsky.social Author + Illustrator | 2x Newbery Medalist | National Book Award Finalist | NYT Bestseller | Agent: Sara Crowe | Faculty: USF MFAY | https://linktr.ee/erinentrada
Stephen Elliott @stelliott.bsky.social Journalist in Nashville, from Alabama
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Andrea Tudhope @andreatudhope.bsky.social Community informed journalist & storyteller. Managing editor @nashvillebanner.bsky.social. New podcast We Are North Nashville out on Apple & Spotify: wearenorthnashville.org
Past lives 📻🎙️ WPLN, This Is Nashville, America Amplified, KCUR, NPR and more.
@saracrowelit.bsky.social @saracrowelit.bsky.social 
Tanner D. @literallytanner.bsky.social Nashville Native | Pop Culture | Beyoncé | @blackopry | @CountryAnyway | Country Music | Artist Manager | Posts are my own.
Emilee Warner @warnerblaster.bsky.social Nashville Realtor, Aftyn Behn's Treasurer, Amqui Station Board President, #recoveryposse
Jake Blount @jakeblount.com Making and studying the musics of Black otherworlds.
🎻 New Dangerfield
📚 Brown University
Jon Freeman @thejonfreeman.bsky.social Lovable idiot. Probably writing words somewhere. Music, books, food/booze, exercise, general goofiness. Queer and southern, based in Nashville. He/him
David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social Music critic. Husband. Dog Lover. Author of “The Running Kind: Listening to Merle Haggard.” Cofounder No Fences Review. Midwesterner
Gregory Lee Jr. @nabjprez2011.bsky.social Loyola University of New Orleans Professor. SI Newsletter Editor. 19th NABJ president. Loves NABJ Sports and Sports Journalism Institute. Alum of Times-Picayune, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Sun-Sentinel, NBA.com, The Athletic and FOS.
Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social author, biography of justin townes earle
senior research editor at rolling stone
he/him
https://jonbernsteinwriting.com/
@jewlyhight.bsky.social @jewlyhight.bsky.social 
Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Musician. Country Soul. Why Bushwick Bill Matters. Pro wrestling coming soon. No Fences Review. Wisconsin and Southern. Disabled and disorderly. He/him.
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Rachel Iacovone @racheliacovone.bsky.social Host of @citycastnash.bsky.social. Former: @ctpublic.bsky.social, @WPLN.bsky.social, @WGCUnews.bsky.social. Frequent food poster & user of the phrase “¡Ay bendito!” 🇵🇷 l she/they 💖💜💙
Steve Haruch 오용찬 @steveharuch.bsky.social writer, editor, senior producer @nashvillebanner.bsky.social | 📚 Greetings From New Nashville + People Only Die of Love in Movies | words & audio at NYT, Atlantic, NPR, et al | steveharuch.com | Signal: sharuch.90 | wearenorthnashville.org
Angela Dennis @angeladennisnews.bsky.social Race & Culture Reporter| As seen in KnoxNews.com @usatoday Network, TennesseeLookout.com | Team👉🏾 BlackWithNoChaser.com &
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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social A loud-mouth on the internet. 
Michael Lee @mrmichaellee.bsky.social Writing The Struggle, The Glory: A New History of the Negro Leagues for @duttonbooks.bsky.social. Kansas City, Mo. native. FAMU grad. Former ATLien. PostSports alum. Illadelph Life
Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social Writer, The Ringer | Co-host, The Press Box & Ringer Tailgate | Former host, Slow Burn seasons 3, 6, 8 | Nation’s fastest 10-year-old in 1988 | Dez & Lani’s dad.
Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social Team game
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Freddie O’Connell @freddieoconnell.bsky.social Mayor of a great city with dedicated funding for transportation and infrastructure that’s also known for music. 🦞
More about what we’re up to at @mayor.nashville.gov.
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http://www.readyforfreddie.com
D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, @NashvilleScene.com. Critic, journalist, freelancer, drummer, DJ and progressive ranter elsewhere. Tips: prodgers@nashvillescene.com
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
Cari Wade Gervin @carigervin.bsky.social Journalist, copywriter, etc. I once wrote a lot about Tennessee politics. Go Dawgs.
carigervin.substack.com
David Plazas @davidplazas.bsky.social Community-centered engagement journalist. Opinion editor, @AJC.com Previously, with The Tennessean / USA TODAY Network.
Chris Herring @herringnba.bsky.social NYT best-selling author and sportswriter. Chicagoan living in New York. Michigan alum.
Miko Marks @mikomarks.bsky.social Singer/songwriter…lover of all things music!
www.mikomarks.com
✨ New Single “Let The Music Get Down In Your Soul” OUT NOW!💫
Margaret Kingsbury @kidlitmatters.bsky.social Children's book author, City Cast Nashville newsletter editor, book reviewer, disabled mom. She/They
Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social Art and Literature ✨🌻
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Vulture @vulture.com devouring culture.
New York Magazine @nymag.com This is New York: Intelligencer, The Cut, Vulture, Curbed, Grub Street, The Strategist.
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Lisa Bubert @lisabubert.bsky.social Writer ✍🏼 Stories, essays, books 📚
Words: Longreads, Texas Highways, Texas Monthly, Insider, various literary journals + more
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Nashville Severe Weather @nashseverewx.com 
Ashley Bachelder @aebachelder.bsky.social Nashvillian. Academic turned Organizer turned Metro Creature. she/her. Interim Executive Director Metro Nashville Arts Commission. Views/posts my own.🦞
Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social Professor of African American and Public History @TSUedu | Coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project | Historic Preservationist | Author | Foodie | Dude with a Camera | Wanderer | Memory Keeper
Website: learothawilliamsphd.com
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
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Andrew G. Haubner @aghaubner.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief: @nocapspacewbb.com
CU Buff, native New Yorker, washed up mogul skier.
Talking women's basketball, sports and some other stuff.
Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social Nashville Banner criminal justice / public safety reporter. “Death Row Welcomes You” author. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676743/death-row-welcomes-you-by-steven-hale/
Vanderbilt Sports & Society Initiative @sportssocietyvu.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of Vanderbilt's Sports & Society Initiative. Sharing news on sports & society with an emphasis on race, gender, Nashville, and Vandy.
Country Universe @countryuniverse.net The longest-running country music blog (f. 08.2004).
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Stephen Trageser @stephentrageser615.bsky.social music editor, Nashville Scene; regular, Gyro Spot; some call him "Goose"; probably thinking about Kate Bush
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"I was put on Earth to do a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I will never die."
Jada Watson @datajada.bsky.social phd in musicology, m. in information science, associate prof of dh @UO_ESIS.
pi of www.SongData.ca
WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio @wpln.bsky.social Nashville's very own public radio. Community-powered trusted news | Nashville | Tennessee | National
Kim Baldwin @theblondemule.bsky.social Burnt Toast podcast producer @virginiasolesmith.bsky.social. Bookseller @parnassusbooks.bsky.social. Newsletter at theblondemule.com / linktr.ee/theblondemule. Previous: @nashvillescene.com, Ladyland Podcast.
Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social Editor, Tennessee Lookout. Nonprofit news outlet holding the powerful accountable. Ego adepto stercore factum. Publish the news and raise hell. https://tennesseelookout.com/
Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social Managing editor of @nashvillescene.com
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Karen Hunter @karenhunter.bsky.social The Architect. Pulitzer. Host of "The Karen Hunter Show" on @urbanviewradio.bsky.social and "#KHIA: https://womens-empowerment-network.simplecast.com Founder of Knarrative.com #Knubia, www.theglobalmajority.com AND www.karenhunterpublishing.com (WHEW!)
Rissi Palmer @rissipalmermusic.bsky.social Singer/Songwriter/Child of God/Grace & Nova’s mom/host of Color Me Country Radio on Apple Music Country/Special Correspondent for CMT Hot 20