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Tennessee Professor Fired Over Charlie Kirk Comments Receives $1.9M Settlement 

Source: JOSH EDELSON / Getty A former professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has received a $1.9 million settlement after being fired for a private Facebook post criticizing Charlie Kirk after his death.  The Washington Post reports that Tamar Shirinian, a former anthropology professor at the university, filed a lawsuit against the university’s […]

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Tennessee Republicans Pass Map Eliminating State’s Only Majority Black District

Source: 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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