Barbara Kaskosz
@kaskosz
Empowered by a recent SCOTUS decision, state lawmakers in Tennessee and Alabama are meeting today to redraw their voting maps. Yesterday, Justin Pearson led a 9-mile march in Tennessee against the carving up of District 9, the only majority-Black district.
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