Bill Lee

Tennessee

Tennessee governor enacts law that could strip voting rights from certain protesters

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Nathan Bedford Forrest theGrio.com

Tennessee Republicans vote to keep KKK leader bust in Capitol

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Coca-Cola Roxy COVID-19 theGrio.com

These three southern states will start easing coronavirus lockdowns

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Glenn Funk thegrio.com

Nashville DA apologizes for picture posing with Confederate flag in 1980s yearbook

A top Nashville prosecutor’s past is coming back to haunt him after his 1982 yearbook photo surfaced showing District Attorney General Glenn Funk posing with a Confederate flag.
/ March 1, 2019
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Tennessee Gov. says he regrets wearing Confederate uniform in picture from undergrad days

In the midst of controversial blackface and other racially charged yearbook photos, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is the latest politician
/ February 22, 2019
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Ex-police chief testifies in George Zimmerman trial

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The former Sanford police chief who lost his job during the fallout from Trayvon Martin’s fatal shooting is on the witness stand at George Zimmerman’s trial…
/ July 8, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

George Zimmerman’s father lays out long list of foes, calls NAACP, Black Caucus ‘racist’ in e-book

theGRIO REPORT – The media, the New Black Panthers, Eric Holder and Rev. Al Sharpton — even the Florida governor and its attorney general, few are spared in a newly released e-book by Robert Zimmerman Sr…
/ June 21, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

In Sanford, the face of authority is increasingly black

theGRIO REPORT – The Martin shooting tore open longstanding wounds between Sanford’s black community and its police department, with residents alleging decades of police harassment of black residents..
/ June 13, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Emails show vitriol toward Sanford police chief Bill Lee

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) – In his waning days as Sanford police chief, Bill Lee received blistering emails with every curse word imaginable, criticizing him for not immediately arresting George Zimmerman for fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin…
/ August 2, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Police chief in Trayvon Martin shooting fired

theGRIO REPORT – Bill Lee, who led the Sanford, Florida police department at the time Trayvon Martin was killed, has been fired, NBC News reports…
/ June 21, 2012