Opinion: Cohen says Memphis wants results, not chaos
Steve Cohen
Congressman Steve Cohen is a fourth-generation Memphian who has served on the Shelby County Commission, in the Tennessee General Assembly and, since 2006, in the U.S. House of Representatives from the 9th District.
“Congressman John Lewis taught us that sometimes we have to get into ‘good trouble.’ Necessary trouble. Because when the system is under attack, silence eventually becomes complicity.”
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