Deep Dish Conversations

What does it mean to be a Nashvillian? A Black Nashvillian? A white Nashvillian? What does it mean to be an organizer an ally an elected official an agent for change? <i>Deep Dish Conversations</i> began as a running online interview series in which host Jerome Moore sits down over pizza with Nashville leaders and community members to talk about the past present and future of the city and what it means to live here. The result is honest conversation about racism housing policing poverty and more in a safe brave person-to-person environment that allows for disagreement.<br> <br> This book is a curated collection of the most striking interviews from the first few seasons of the series with a foreword by Dr. Sekou Franklin an introduction by Moore and contextual introductions to each interviewee. Figures like Judge Sheila Calloway comedian Josh Black anti-racism speaker Tim Wise organizer Jorge Salles Diaz and many more explore their wide-ranging perspectives on social change in a city in the midst of massive demographic and ideological shifts.<br> <br> For anyone in any twenty-first-century city <i>Deep Dish Conversations</i> offers a lot to think about-and a lot of ways to think about it.