Rose Gilbert

Nashville

General Assignment Reporter at WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)

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Articles

Welcome to the Classy Hotel Ankawa

1 week ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

Nearly two years ago, I came to the leadership at WPLN with a somewhat outrageous idea: to send me, a local general assignment reporter, on a five-week-long reporting trip to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Erbil (often called Hawler by Kurdish people) is also Nashville’s newest sister city, a distinction born of our vibrant Kurdish community, which is the largest in the United States.
This Nashville asylum seeker faced prison for a tweet. Trump's executive order jeopardizes his future.

2 months ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

I met Rêdûr, a Kurdish farmer from Turkey, for tea and kebabs at an international market in South Nashville. As we ate, he told me that he and his family fled their village and came to Nashville as asylum seekers about two years ago. Now, they are among thousands facing an uncertain future after President Trump issued an executive order suspending the asylum process. On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit challenging that order.
Expert CONsensus on Visual Evaluation in Retinal disease manaGEment: the CONVERGE study

2 months ago | bjo.bmj.com | Roger Anderson |Mark Roark |Rose Gilbert |Dayyanah Sumodhee

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Refugees approved to resettle in Tennessee are now blocked by Trump order

2 months ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

Flights for more than 10,000 refugees who were cleared to come to the United States have been canceled following an executive order from President Donald Trump. That includes dozens of people who had been approved to travel to Middle Tennessee. “Everything has been canceled across the country, every flight,” said Max Rykov with the Nashville International Center for Empowerment (NICE), a local refugee resettlement nonprofit.
Middle Tennessee's Syrian community celebrates after rebels oust Assad regime

Dec 9, 2024 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

In Murfreesboro, members of the local Syrian community sing, dance, pray and play the drums. The room is filled with Syrian flags: Some are cloth, some are hand-drawn, and still others are made up of balloons. The green, white and black stripes with three red stars is a design that predates the more than 50-year-long Assad regime. After 13 years of civil war, Syrian rebel forces have taken Damascus, and Bashar al-Assad and his family have fled to Russia, where they have been granted asylum.
This Kurdish Nashvillian supports Trump. The reason is rooted in history.

Nov 12, 2024 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

President-elect Donald Trump has a complicated track record when it comes to Kurdistan. During his first term in office, he declined to support Iraqi Kurdistan’s 2017 independence referendum and passed a “Muslim travel ban” that impacted many Kurdish people until it was overturned by the courts. Two years later, he withdrew American troops from Syria, where they had been supporting Kurdish forces fighting against ISIS.
Gun reform activist Shaundelle Brooks wins District 60 statehouse race

Nov 5, 2024 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

First-time candidate Shaundelle Brooks has defeated Republican Chad Bobo, keeping Tennessee House District 60 blue. She will replace Democratic Rep. Darren Jernigan, who was elected to the seat in 2012 and who recently became an advisor in the Nashville mayor’s office.
Republican incumbent Rep. Mike Sparks reelected to House District 49

Nov 5, 2024 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

House Republican incumbent Rep. Mike Sparks has defeated immigrant rights activist Luis Mata to be reelected to his seat, which he has held since 2010. Sparks supports charter schools and the school voucher program, in addition to investing in public schools. He has said that Rutherford County’s overburdened school system has been caused by illegal immigrants.
Students at Belmont make voting social this Election Day

Nov 5, 2024 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

Nashville is known as the “Athens of the South” in part because it is home to so many colleges and universities. That means it’s also home to lots of young, first-time voters today. I cast my ballot this morning at my polling location on Belmont University’s campus, where I saw some students have made this Election Day a social occasion. I saw a many young people at the polls with their partners or friends.
Election Day turnout strong so far in Davidson County

Nov 5, 2024 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

Davidson County saw a strong start to Election Day voting this morning, with several locations reporting lines forming before they even opened their doors. Nashville Elections Administrator Jeff Roberts explained that the county’s election commission keeps track of voting trends by looking at their 35 largest precincts. According to that sample, day-of voting is up compared to the last presidential election, with 14,595 ballots cast as of 1:30 p.m., compared to 11,850 at the same time in 2020.