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Sidney's Picks: Tennessee GOP Expels Black Democratic Lawmakers

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Best of the Week’s News:

  • Republicans expel two Black Democratic lawmakers from the Tennessee state House for “violating decorum” during a protest for gun control, but keep their white colleague who did the same thing. (Tennessean)
     
  • In France, you need 42 uninterrupted years of work to draw a full pension. French feminists say this rule unfairly penalizes women. (In These Times)
     
  • Jane LaTour, union activist and chronicler of women in the labor movement, dies at age 76. (NYT)
     
  • Residents at one of the nation’s most prestigious hospitals hope to votethis month on whether to form a union. (GBH)
     
  • U.S. economy adds 236,000 jobs, inching unemployment to a near 50-year low. (WaPo)