</p> <p>Observation Deck staff, Tennessee Silkeeper checkout <br />April 1, 2025</p> </p> <figure><i/> Kaiden Tharpe attended the International Transgender Visibility Rally on March 31, 2025 to raise awareness about her experience in Memphis, Tennessee (Photo by Karen Pulfer Fock for Tennessee Checkout)</figure> <figure><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/31/giving-guns-to-certain-mental-health-patients-could-become-a-crime-in-tennessee/shaundelle-brooks005/"/><i/> Covenant School’s mom Sara Schupneumann embraced Rep. Chandel Brooks after Brooks’ Firearms Bill moved forward from the Tennessee House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on March 26, 2025.<br />(Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)</figure> <figure><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tennesseelookout.com/john-rose-018/"/><i/> It is wrapped in a flag. Rep. John Rose embraced supporter Natisha Brooks after announcing his candidacy for governor on March 20, 2025. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)</figure> <figure><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tennesseelookout.com/pledge-house003/"/><i/> Justin Wilkins and daughter Emmy recite the pledge of loyalty that disrupt the House Banking and Consumer Affairs Commission on March 19th.<br />(Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)</figure> <figure><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/04/01/the-month-in-photos-march-2025/photographs-by-john-partipilo-tennessee-lookout-2025-42/"/><i/> Senator Marsha Blackburn greets the Tennessee Capitol on March 18, 2025 during the AG day at the hill.</figure> <figure><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/19/tennessee-ag-day-on-the-hill-2025/ag-day023/"/><i/> Rep. Justin Jones, a Nashville Democrat, leads Webster, a miniature horse, through Cordell Hull’s legislative construction on March 18, 2025 (Photo: John Partipiro/Tennesseleckout)</figure> <figure><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/09/tens-of-thousands-commemorate-60th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-in-selma/photographs-by-john-partipilo-tennessee-lookout-2025-23/"/><i/> Rev. Bernard Lafayette (center, wheelchair and cloth hat) held his wife Kate’s hand at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 9, 2025, and was let go beyond Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 9, 2025 as part of the Peaceful Civil Rights Protestor’s attacks in 1965 against peaceful civil rights protestors who led to the rights and voter rights lawsuits of Selma to Mantogomery. Lafayette ran the Selma Voting Rights Campaign in 1965, and survived an attempted assassination. (John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)</figure> <figure><a rel="nofollow" href="https://tennesseelookout.com/003/"/><i/> Pratic Dash of the Tennessee Immigration and Refugee Rights Union cried out, “We’re back!” After a House committee went ahead with measures to allow public schools to refuse education to the country’s children without permanent legal status. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)</figure> <p> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://tennesseelookout.com/subscribe"></p> <div class="subscribeShortcodeContainer"> <div class="subscribeTextContainer"> <i/></p> <p>Get the morning heading.</p> </p></div> <p> Subscribe </p> </p></div> <p>Tennesse Seal Lookout is part of the state newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by the 501C(3) public charity coalition of grants and donors. Tennessele Lookout maintains editorial independence. For questions, please contact Holly McCall at info@tennesseleookout.com.</p> <p>