Opinion

Tennessee Silencing Black Politicians Is Not New for the South

HISTORY LESSON

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.

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