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A new lawmaker from Memphis, Tennessee, is making waves after he attended his swearing-in ceremony wearing a dashiki. Democratic Rep. Justin J. Pearson
Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson referred to his colleague as a "white supremacist" after being criticized for wearing a dashiki.
Representative Justin J. Pearson of Tennessee is new to the inner workings of Nashville, but he is already making headlines.
The new law could hold some third-grade students back if they don't perform well enough on a state test.
A Republican lawmaker said during a public hearing this week that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is probing the conduct of current and former employees of the Department of Children's Services -- an investigation a TBI spokeswoman later said she could neither confirm nor deny.