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Friends,
I hope you had a terrific Thanksgiving. While our attention now turns to holiday shopping — and I know you’ll join me in shopping local again this year! — we shouldn’t forget how difficult this season can be for many people and families who are in need...

Friends,
This week began with one of my favorite Chattanooga traditions — the community-wide potluck called Gratefull Chattanooga. When it began five years ago and was known as One Table, it drew a few hundred people to Miller Plaza for an afternoon of great...

It was 1972 and I was finally able to vote for the first time. My parents instilled in me that voting was a right that they had to earn for us and that people lost their lives so that we would be able to have that right.
As I grew older and paid more attention to what was going on in my community, I realized how important voting actually impacted what happened. I was working part-time and going to college in Nashville, so I had to find time to vote. I went to my polling...

The first time I voted I was 20 years old and a student at Florida A&M University. It was finally Election Day and I was so excited to vote for the first time. Growing up I learned about the Civil Rights Movement and how my parents and grandparents...