Kamala Harris praises courage of ‘Tennessee Three’ on visit to Nashville
by Becca Andrews in Nashville, Tennessee from US news | The Guardian on (#6AKWB)
US vice-president shows support for Democrats ousted by Republicans from state house as scandal rages on
About 500 people packed the chapel at Fisk University, a historically Black college in Nashville, Tennessee, and sang the civil rights anthem This Little Light of Mine while they waited for US vice-president Kamala Harris to appear. When she did, the crowd erupted in cheers.
Harris and her listeners were there to show support for her fellow Democrats and state lawmakers Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson - Jones and Pearson were ousted from the Republican-controlled Tennessee house of representatives after joining a protest in favor of gun control at the capitol in Nashville, and Johnson narrowly survived an expulsion vote.
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