‘A defibrillator to the heart of Jim Crow’: Black voters ready to fight map changes

'Backwards at warp speed': How the South is systematically erasing Black power

Yesterday I spoke with Tennessee state representative Justin Jones, one of the nation’s young Black leaders who’s been a rising star in Tennessee politics, about the Supreme Court’s shameful April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Jones told me that, at Trump’s urging, Tennessee Republicans had prepared a redistricting map even before the Court announced its decision. Then, despite pleas from Black …

‘A defibrillator to the heart of Jim Crow’: Black voters ready to fight map changes

Voting rights advocates are scrambling to respond to rapidly gerrymandered congressional maps that dilute Black political power