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Sen. Raumesh Akbari, D-Memphis, is an attorney, a family business owner and a board member of the National Civil Rights Museum. She represents District 29 in the Tennessee Senate.
As a Black teenager growing up in Memphis, I was always perplexed, and later offended, that the city of Memphis committed our tax dollars to public memorials honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest – a brutal enslaver who tortured and sold people like my ancestors.
His legacy of treason against the United States and terrorism against Black Americans as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan hardly seemed worthy of celebration.