US Politics
The Carving of Memphis: How Tennessee's Gerrymander Attacks Democracy and Silences Black Voices
The Tennessee Legislature passed a new congressional map that dismantles the state's last majority-minority district in Memphis, aiming to secure Republican control of all nine U.S. House seats. This is a brazen assault on minority voting rights and representative democracy, using partisan fig leaves to disguise what is fundamentally a racist power grab that silences Black voices.
