Memphis is one of the largest majority Black cities in America. And African American voters remain the backbone of the Democratic Party.

Tennessee sits at the center of the South. We border eight states, which means our influence is not just local, not just statewide, but it’s regional.

What happens in Tennessee has the power to reach across the South and shape national momentum, because we all know the South is the last battleground of this nation.

If you truly believe that all Tennesseans and women in this country deserve the right to abortion access and decide how they want to start their family and when they get to make the decision, then we must get out to vote and put focus back…

this whole decision is just appalling. As a woman who has almost lost her life during child -- during childbirth, I`ve lost a child during childbirth, I`m appalled that I no longer have the choice to decide if I want to subject myself to…

What we have to do is challenge this idea of being pro-life. If we are wanting to be a pro-life state that Tennessee says it is, then we need to make sure we`re expanding healthcare access.

We have to do a better job at protecting the families we have here in Tennessee, and stop the bad legislation that is coming down the line that will further -- stop other humans in this state for being able to make decisions about how they…

We need to focus on the real issues like getting people jobs, versus deciding who has the right to love and who doesn’t.

There’s been attempt every year even before I got into the legislature to circumvent the LGBTQ family to live a happy, healthy, and fair life just like everybody else in this state.

This is another Republican attempt to circumvent marriage and basically put their own values on the everyday people of Tennessee.

The party that says we need to follow the law of the land, law and order, follow the rules, is the party that’s exactly trying to circumvent the exact laws of the land that’s come down for the Supreme Court.

I can`t have it. It`s unacceptable. And if we do go to a special session, I will be tearing down the House to make sure they cannot take away local LEAs` ability to protect our children because no parent should have to experience their…

Let`s literally legislate responsibly. Let`s base our decisions on facts and science. Let`s do the right thing by our most vulnerable population, and those are our babies.

I`m just over political games they are playing. I`m over the irresponsibility they are playing.

Every day, I have to walk in to make legislation for all people of Tennessee. I have to walk past a Klansmen before I go into the people`s house. Our state capitol is recognizing and supporting the first Grand Wizard of the KKK in a…

Again, our Republicans claim to be the party of pro-life. Well, if you are the party of pro-life, be for children, and don`t deny them information access to life-saving health care opportunities that can in fact save their lives.

Right now, this is unconscionable. Right now, we are still in the midst of pandemic where Tennessee is number one in the country for the highest rates of vaccines.

We must do this ourselves. It is my job as the legislature to continue to inform my citizens on how they can access the vaccine.

We are trying to whitewash history. They refuse to tell the real story about Nathan Bedford Forrest.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was created so that Southern states can have more representation in Congress.

If we don’t talk about their true history, such as the history of Nathan Bedford Forrest in an accurate way, we are doomed to repeat it.

We can’t just skate go or whitewash history so those white Americans now don’t have to feel the repercussions of 400-plus years of enslavement.

If we truly want to bring tax dollars down and want everybody to come here, then we don’t need to put up a bust of a man who killed black soldiers.

That is very important that this man who was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK, who massacred many black Union soldiers. I wanted to see that he sits right here in the most powerful building in the state of Tennessee, and between the most…