2020 Black Lives Matter protest organizer to challenge Cohen for Congress
In the wake of George Floyd’s death, Devante Hill led a march through Downtown Memphis on May 29, 2020, that included kneeling for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Beale Street. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Already facing Rep. Justin J. Pearson, Steve Cohen faces a new challenger; one who was active during the George Floyd protests in Memphis years ago.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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