Tennessee Republicans eliminated the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district after the supreme court gutted part of the Voting Rights Act
From the bridge on Poplar Avenue, above the railroad tracks that cut through the Memphis neighborhood of Binghampton, you can’t see the rupture at the heart of the city. You can’t see the people living rough under the bridge, either.
Days after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act, rendering ineffective a part that prevented radical discrimination, Tennessee Republicans redrew the state’s congressional maps last month – and eliminated its one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district.