Founding membership
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The Maroon has no paywall and never will. Every investigation, every meeting brief, every almanac entry is free to Black Nashville — because members pay for it to be.
No paywall, everReader-fundedIndependent & Black-owned
The founding drive is open. 300 founding members unlocks the print quarterly.
Where the money goes
A newsroom you can audit.
We publish our budget once a year, to the dollar. Membership pays reporters first — everything else comes after.
Reporting & editorial68%
Print quarterly & distribution14%
Community events & forums10%
Operations8%
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Nobody else was going to sit through a three-hour planning commission meeting for Bordeaux. They did.
A founding member · North Nashville