GOP Gerrymandering Is Erasing the South’s Black Votes

GOP Gerrymandering is Erasing the South’s Black Votes

Photograph Source: Longestview – CC0 On May 8, the Republican-controlled legislature of Tennessee passed new redistricting maps that divide Memphis’s 63 percent Black population across three white-majority districts. This eliminates the state’s sole Black-majority district. Republicans in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia are similarly pushing redistricting maps that would decimate their majority-Black districts. These moves come on t…

TheVoiceOfJoyce The NashVillager is reporting on the 3 separate challenges to the elimination of the one Black district. The district was divided into 3 parts without public input and now it’s being challenged by the NAACP.

Donate todayWednesday, May 13, 2026Good morning! Nina Cardona It’s not Groundhog Day. We’re not really seeing the same thing happen again and again. But now there is yet another lawsuit challenging the Congressional redistricting maps that Tennessee’s legislature adopted last week. And we’re starting to see some developments in the first two suits, too.  As a newscaster, part of my job is keeping track of all of this, and I basically need a char…