Expulsion and Transformation: Tennessee Democrats in the Spotlight.

Justin Pearson, one of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House for supporting gun control protesters, could return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission vote. Republicans banished Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones last week over their role in a gun control protest on the House floor after a Nashville school shooting that left six dead. The expulsions drew accusations of racism, and the Tennessee Democratic Party received a new jolt of support from across the U.S. Pearson grew up in the same House district he was chosen to represent after longtime state Rep. Barbara Cooper, a Black Democrat, died in office.