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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 3, 2019

Marquita Bradshaw, a Memphis environmentalist and activist with ties to national labor groups, is entering the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Lamar Alexander, the Nashville Post reports. Bradshaw has worked with the Tennessee chapter of the Sierra Club, the police accountability group Memphis United, the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, the American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO. Politics runs in her family: her uncle is state Rep. John DeBerry, D-Memphis, and her mother has been fighting for environmental justice for decades. She joins Nashville attorney James Mackler in seeking the Democratic nomination for the 2020 election.