April 27, 2021
The Metro Nashville Industrial Development Board approved the $175 million economic development plan for tech giant Oracle to build a corporate campus on the east bank of the Cumberland River despite 11th hour objections from the city s political left flank.
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The vote was 7-2 after over four hours of consideration including more than two hours of comments from members of the public.
The approval puts the project on the brink of fruition. It will be considered by the Metro Council next week.
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Odessa Kelly Takes Aim at Cooper âDynastyâ in Congressional Primary Bid The national group behind âThe Squadâ taps local nonprofit leader, longtime community center director to lead off 2022 efforts Tweet
Odessa Kelly, photographed at the Napier Community CenterPhoto: Eric England
Odessa Kelly is greeted like a celebrity at the Napier Community Center. The kids playing basketball in the gym call out to âMiss Odessaâ and run over to give her fist bumps. Adult supervisors offer hugs.
Itâs been more than a year since the 39-year-old left her job at this Metro facility to serve as the full-time executive director of Stand Up Nashville, a community engagement and social justice nonprofit organization she co-founded. But âMiss Odessaâ is still a familiar face at the community center, and she says the kids who use that nickname are the ones who inspired her to take her next step: running for Congress against longtime
Many of those groups are still at it. About two dozen people gathered outside Cooper’s downtown Nashville office on Friday to call on the lawmaker to get behind various climate change, policing and health care proposals.
“I don’t think he’s done enough,” says Audrey Tesi of Black Lives Matter Nashville. “I’ve seen him provide some statements, but those are empty statements. It’s not enough to say, ‘I hear and see you and I empathize with you.’ That does not provide materially effective change for the Black community.”
Cooper has long been known as a moderate Democrat a budget hawk who made a name for himself in the 1990s
Courtesy of The Equity Alliance
The Equity Alliance, a Nashville-based statewide nonprofit focused on the civic and economic empowerment of the Black community, has announced it will received $350,000 over the next three years to create a new civic leadership training program.
The Equity Alliance was one of 20 organizations chosen nationally to receive a grant from Gilead Sciences Inc.’s Racial Equity Community Impact Fund, according to a release. The fund supports high-impact organizations working to tackle racial inequities affecting Black communities across the United States.
The grant recipients include other advocacy groups from across the U.S., as well as leading historically Black colleges and universities. The fund will initially provide $10 million in grants to the organizations over a three-year period focused on community advocacy and mobilization, social justice and educational innovation.