Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton found time this week, in the midst of campaigning for Memphis mayor, to visit Washington, DC for an infant mortality awareness event at the National Press Club.
As Washington correspondent Bartholomew Sullivan reported today, Wharton and State Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, attended the screening of a documentary about the Office of Minority Health's outreach efforts filmed in Memphis by the wife of director Spike Lee.
Wharton, who has made infant mortality awareness a priority during his seven years as county mayor, is featured in the film.
According to Sullivan, the film opens at the Shelby County Cemetery where, at the time of the documentary, 402 babies who never made it to their first birthdays are buried.
"Each marker," Wharton says in the film, "represents grief."
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