State Reps. Scott Cepicky, a Culleoka Republican, and Rep. John Ray Clemmons, a Nashville Democrat, nearly came to blows on the floor of the House or Represenatives on March 7. (Photo: John Partipilo)
The Tennessee General Assembly
House Speaker Cameron Sexton, between House Majority Leader William Lamberth and House Republican Caucus Leader Jeremy Faison, reacts angrily to a reporter’s question on February 22. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, showing off one of the tickets now required for members of the public to access the House of Representatives gallery. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Rep. Todd Warner, R-Chapel Hill, in his legislative office at the Cordell Hull Building with a life-size Donald Trump cutout. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Rep. Gloria Johnson, a Knoxville Democrat, buries her face in her hands during a debate over private school vouchers on March 6. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Civil Rights
On Nashville’s Lower Broadway, a little girl was frightened by a group of Neo-Nazis marching on June 14. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Dahron Johnson became the first transgender person to lead the Tennessee General Assembly in prayer on January 29. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Civil Rights icon Diane Nash with Metro Nashville Councilmember Zulfat Suara at an April 20 event honoring Nash’s work and naming the plaza in front of the Metro Courthouse for her. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Scenes from thePride Parade on June 1 in Memphis, Tennessee (Photo: Karen Pulfer Focht)
Elnathan Hall at Knoxville College, a historically Black college, burns on Nov. 4, 2024. (Photo: Angela Dennis)
The library on the former grounds of the Highlander Folk Center, in which Rev. Martin Luther King once lectured, is one of few buildings remaining on the Grundy County site closed by the state in 1961. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
National figures visit the Volunteer State
Donald Trump speaking at Nashville’s Music City Center on July 28 for a bitcoin convention. (Photo: John Partipilo) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. brought his presidential campaign to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on May 16, arriving three hours late. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Decision 2024
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, with family and state Sen. Jack Johnson, far right, and his wife, Williamson County Judge Deanna Johnson, celebrate her reelection on November 5. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Courtney Johnston and August 1 campaign event as she conceded the 5th District Republican primary. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Sen. Ferrell Haile, a Gallatin Republican, beat back a challenge in the August primary while receiving $680,000 in support from pro-school voucher groups. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Shaking hands and kissing babies: former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, who is running for Congress in Tennessee District 7. talks to a future voter on the November 5 Election Day. Barry lost to incumbent Rep. Mark Green. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Calling in the cavalry: Rep. John Gillespie, right, a Memphis Republican, pulled in Election Day support from U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty. (Photo: Karen Pulfer Focht)
Shaundelle Brooks, outside the Tennessee Capitol, kept House District 60 in the Democratic column after defeating a former aide to Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton. (Photo: John Partipilo)
