Tennessee redistricting debate marked by fiery oratory about Black struggles for voting rights

During separate hours-long debates on redistricting in the Tennessee House and Senate on Thursday, Democrats delivered fiery oratory, often invoking the decades-long struggles of Black Tennesseans to secure voting rights, in opposing a Republican plan to divide Tennessee’s only majority-Democratic U.S. House district encompassing Memphis into three. Republicans, who hold a supermajority voting power that […]

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