Tennessee Approves Congressional Map Dismantling Majority-Black Memphis District

The redistricting dilutes voting power and political representation for majority-Black communities in Memphis.

In Tennessee, the redrawing of electoral boundaries around Memphis has once again placed the question of political power and racial equity at the center of American democratic life. The legislature's decision to fragment a majority-Black district — a technique known as cracking — continues a long national pattern in which the lines on a map determine whose voice carries weight and whose is scattered into silence. Memphis, a city whose history is inseparable from the struggle for civil rights, now finds that struggle renewed in the language of congressional cartography. The courts, as they have

Tennessee Approves Congressional Map Dismantling Majority-Black Memphis District

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