Tennessee Has Two White Faces. I’ve Seen Both of Them. The effort to silence the “two Justins” shows that my home state is still struggling to bury its Confederate past. Just ask my family.

Tennessee's Republican-led House voted to expel the two Black Democratic lawmakers who led a raucous protest from the House floor calling for gun law reforms. Their one White colleague was saved.

Tennessee will soon debut an online map that brings together more than 1,000 points of interest that detail the role of African-Americans in the Civil War. A first for the state, the yearlong ...

A group of Tennessee voters, including former state Sen. Brenda Gilmore, filed a lawsuit Wednesday over Tennessee's newly drawn congressional maps, alleging the redistricting effort in early 2022 ...

Dating back to Reconstruction, it has been a tool used by White supremacists to maintain control and minority rule.

Not all snakes are dangerous, but it’s important to know which species you might encounter while swimming in these lakes and ...

Justin Jones and Justin Pearson’s expulsion isn’t the first time Black politicians have been kicked out of office for going against the grain—it also happened after the Civil War.

One in five Black residents of Tennessee are prohibited by state law from voting. In combination with numerous other election barriers, advocates say, people of color have been broadly disenfranchised ...

What an almost entirely white Republican supermajority in a gerrymandered state acting to expel two young Black democratic politicians reveals about race and democracy.

When Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted this week to expel two Black members, they revealed their resemblance to the anti-democratic, authoritarian Redeemers of more than ...

A white lawmaker in Tennessee survived a vote to expel her but two Black lawmakers lost their seats. The vote to expel Rep. Gloria Johnson failed 65-30, missing the two-thirds majority required ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judicial panel has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Tennessee's U.S. House maps and those for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.