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Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) said his race played a role in his expulsion from the state House on Thursday. “I basically had a member call me an uppity Negro,” Jones, who is Black, told MSNBC’s Joy Reid after the 72-25 vote that expelled him. “It’s not about me, but it’s about the 78,000…
Two months after voters approved a sweeping change to city government, the Portland City Council last week approved 13 nominees to the commission that will reshape how Portlanders are represented.