Primary Source. 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.

The complaint alleges Tennessee's new maps amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering by breaking apart a Davidson County-centric Black, urban voting population and parsing it into three ...

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.

On April 6, the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Black freshman lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for exercising their First Amendment rights, protesting gun violence with ...

New digital map to gather scattered details. 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.

Tennessee Democratic Reps. Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin Pearson of Memphis — two young Black men ... “I am a 60-year-old White woman, and they are two young Black men,” Johnson ...

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

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.

A Democratic lawmaker in Tennessee claimed she survived a vote to expel her from the state legislature while her colleague didn't because she is White and he is Black.