Source: asbe / Getty For the second time in less than a week, a U.S. citizen in Memphis has been fatally shot by officers with a federal task force created by President Donald Trump and deployed to the city by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. Earlier this week, we reported that two Tennessee National Guard members, […]
Read MoreSource: Nikki O’Keefe Images / Getty So when the modern Republicans were talking about making America great again, we can now safely assume they were talking about the Jim Crow era. In the wake of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee’s Republican-led state legislature has passed a new congressional map that completely […]
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Source: Brett Carlsen / Getty The GOP has wasted no time in capitalizing on the Supreme Court’s ruling to gut the Voting Rights Act to disenfranchise Black voters. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called a special session on Tuesday to focus on redistricting, and on Wednesday, the state legislature revealed a map that eliminates the state’s […]
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Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson gained national recognition in 2023 as part of the “Tennessee Three” who were expelled from the state House after protesting gun violence in the chamber. In the years since, Pearson has remained steadfast in his efforts to address gun violence, environmental racism, and ICE’s draconian mass deportation campaign. Last year, […]
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