Courtesy LeXander BRYANT/Black Nashville Assembly
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Mike Floss spins music at a Black Nashville Assembly meeting. The group is trying to organize people to be more engaged politically. Courtesy LeXander BRYANT/Black Nashville Assembly
Some organizers in Nashville, Tenn., are working to strengthen local Black political power.
Last summer, the city s majority Democratic council rejected more than seven hours of pleas to decrease police funding. Every politician in Nashville is supposedly progressive yet we have a hard time getting our points of view even heard, organizer Theeda Murphy says.
The Black Nashville Assembly wants to create an agenda that ensures the government doesn t create barriers for Black people s progress. They re riding a momentum sparked by Georgia flipping blue and using a legacy of strategies from people-driven movements.