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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and Chairman of its Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today condemned the recent vandalization of a monument to Major League Baseball's first Black player, civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson, at his birthplace in southwest Georgia.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who as a state senator sponsored and assured the passage of a bill creating the Tennessee Holocaust Commission in 1984, today condemned the decision by the McMinn County School Board to ban Maus, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman's graphic novel about the Holocaust.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today made the following statement about International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is Thursday, January 27:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $3,806,815 from the National Science Foundation for scholarships to train a regional cybersecurity workforce. The project, "CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Developing the Cybersecurity Workforce in West Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas," is under the direction of Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor Kan Yang.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today presided over a hearing entitled "Voter Suppression and Continuing Threats to Democracy."

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will receive a $231,699 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project entitled "Targeting defective spliceosomal pathway in myeloid malignancies."

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $198,766 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ERI: Formation Mechanisms and Modeling of Wake Meandering in Wind Farms." The work is under the director of Dr. Daniel Foti in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that three Memphis area arts organizations will share $45,000 in National Endowment for the Arts grants. Creative Aging Memphis will receive $10,000 for art projects and multidisciplinary works; Indie Memphis will receive $20,000 for media arts projects; and the University of Memphis will receive $15,000 to research the availability of grants in the arts.