‘Killing Our Vote’: GOP States Rush to Break up Black Districts After US Supreme Court Case

‘Killing our vote’: GOP states rush to break up Black districts after US Supreme Court case

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson, a Memphis Democrat, speaks to a crowd of protesters on May 5, 2026, the first day of a special legislative session called by Republican Gov. Bill Lee to redraw Tennessee’s congressional districts. (Photo by Cassandra Stephenson/Tennessee Lookout)The day after the U.S. Supreme Court crippled the federal Voting Rights Act, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson addressed a virtual gathering for the group’s mem…

After SCOTUS destroyed the Voting Rights Act, southern states rush to pass Jim Crow voting maps

“We’re seeing the greatest purge of Black power since the era of Reconstruction.”

“Gerrymandering Arms Race”: GOP Rushes to Erase Black Representation After SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights

“The country’s most important civil rights law no longer effectively exists, and that’s going to have ramifications on American democracy for a very long time.” Mother Jones correspondent Ari Berman reacts to the Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision rejecting key principles of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Since the court issued its ruling last week, Republican-controlled states have begun to redraw their voting maps in a “gerrymandering arms race”…

Black legislators lead the resistance as Republicans rush to redraw maps after gutting of Voting Rights Act

""This is our moment in time to resist, to persist, to fight back," Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson tells theGrio.

Let’s ditch the idea of the ‘black vote’

I long took for granted that US opinion polls break down respondents into white people, black people and Hispanics. But I’ve come to look askance at this convention. Reporting on political views by race now seems perverse. It implies that a citizen’s primary identity is grounded in skin colour, and it reifies a way of thinking about the American people that is regressive, divisive, inaccurate and downright un-American. I was reminded of this rec…

GOP states rush to break up Black districts after US SupCo case

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana vs. Callais on April 29 cleared states to split apart, for political gain, congressional districts where a majority of residents belong to minority groups. Continue reading…