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How Alabama’s Gerrymander Could Hurt Black Political Power Across The Country
Alabama’s contested congressional map is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. But regardless of how the case shakes out, it could change voting rights across the South. Nathaniel Rakich: Alabama is perhaps best known as the epicenter of the civil rights movement. But nearly 60 years after voting-rights advocates marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Black Alabamians are still underrepresented in Congress. Under the state’s new, Republican-drawn congressional map, only one out of the state’s seven districts is predominantly Black. But the 2020 census found that Black people make up almost two-sevenths of Alabama’s voting age population. So this map is probably a violation of t

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