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- ↑ "CNN's Van Jones Reports in "What Happened to Tennessee? The Battle of Blue and Red" for The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper". CNN. 2024-02-26. Archived from the original on February 26, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-28.
- ↑ Turner, Dakarai; FOX13Memphis.com. "First Black chair of Tennessee Democratic Party reflects on Memphis roots that helped lead him here". FOX13 News Memphis. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Remus elected first Black chairman of Tennessee Dem Party". AP NEWS. 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
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