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The Nashville Office of Emergency Management announced on Wednesday the opening of a Multi-Agency Recovery Center at Plaza Mariachi, 3955 Nolensville Pike.
The one-stop shop aims to help those impacted by the severe weather in March.
The center will open Saturday and will run through Friday, May 28. Residents will get another opportunity to visit the center after Memorial day on Tuesday, June 1 until Sunday, June 6. The center will operate from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.
Representatives at the center will be available to meet with residents in person wanting to apply for federal assistance.
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They were coming to arrest his father.
Deepesh Subedi, only 5 at the time, helped his family quickly pack a few essentials before the soldiers arrived. It didnât matter that his father was a quiet farmer, with no interest in politics. It didnât matter that the Subedi family had lived in Bhutan â a small country on the edge of the Himalayas â as legal citizens for several generations. All that mattered to the soldiers, marching up the slopes with their guns, was that the family had immigrated from Nepal several generations earlier.
Men were coming to arrest his father â possibly his entire family.
Mignon Francois owes it all to her grandmother.
Thirteen years ago, Francois couldn t even bake cupcakes using a store-bought kit. But thanks to countless patient phone calls during which her grandmother gave helpful advice like, just add flour until it feels right she s developed recipes at The Cupcake Collection that have won national honors.
More importantly, Mignon said, she s part of the first generation of Black business owners with full access to business opportunities. We don t have a long history or a long line of having the opportunity to have business ownership, Mignon said. Entrepreneurship is, to me, a wonderful opportunity to experience true freedom.
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. âIn place of offering a single voice and perspective on the city,â editors Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams write, âwe offer a multitude, and intentionally privilege the perspectives of those most directly impacted by injustice in the city.â Privileging these voices may, at first, seem to represent an alternative history â another way of understanding Nashville. But as the work progresses, offering perspectives of more than 100 local contributors, the purpose becomes clear: This is not just âalternative history.â Instead, it is an unflinching, full story â one that transcends niceties and commits