Expulsion of Black Tennessee lawmakers sparks racial tension and global response.

Tennessee House Republicans expelled two newly elected Black lawmakers and one White female lawmaker for disrupting the sanctity of the chamber during a gun control protest that filled the gallery in the wake of a Christian school shooting last month that left six dead. The Republican supermajority largely made up of White and male lawmakers risked further scarring a state with a legacy of brutal battles over race and power. The lawmakers were set to make history in a building already steeped in it.