Metro Nashville’s budget for fiscal year 2026 is set, and once again, the Southern Movement Committee’s Varsity Spending Plan — which inspired the Office of Youth Safety — played a key role. SMC executive director Erica Perry and organizing director Jamel Campbell-Gooch sit down with host Marie Cecile Anderson to talk about their work and where it goes from here.

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