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After the Supreme Court narrowed protections for race-conscious redistricting, several Southern states moved quickly to redraw congressional lines. Tennessee wiped out its only majority-Black district in eight days, prompting lawsuits and a surge in voter turnout in Memphis and across the Black Belt.
Black voters mobilized through grassroots organizing and record early voting, turning frustration into participation even as legal battles continue. This episode explains the court ruling, the rapid redistricting responses in Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina, the turnout data that followed, and what organizers say must happen next before November.
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