New black caucus will recruit, train candidates for office

A newly formed group of black Democrats has established a caucus within the Davidson County Democratic Party structure in an effort to recruit and train candidates for local and state offices and to advocate for representation within the party.

The group, the Davidson County Democratic Black Caucus, filed paperwork to form a political action committee weeks after the November election. The chair, Kara Turrentine, said the group's most pressing focus is on the nonpartisan Metro Council elections later this year. (Turrentine is a local political consultant who most recently worked on Nashville Democrat Brenda Gilmore’s successful state Senate campaign.)