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Congress since 2011. For 13 of those years, she was the only Democrat in Alabama’s congressional delegation and the only representative from a district where Black voters could elect a candidate of their
2023. **Lisa Lake/Getty Images North America** Lisa Lake/Getty Images North America As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, historian and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says he's feeling rageful. He opens
black in protest. The previous day, Tamil Nadu’s chief minister, MK Stalin, described the bill as a “punishment” for southern states and burned a copy outside parliament. Opposition MPs questioned why women’s representation
Congress](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus) The focus of Section 2, the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority ruled, should now be intentional racial discrimination, a legal standard that's notoriously difficult to prove in court. Many legal
Congress is non-white. Less than 10 percent of Republican representation is non-white. “Our parties are so racially split, racial gerrymandering can use the fig leaf of partisan gerrymandering,” said Carol Anderson, chair
Congress to advance his agenda. Despite this, a handful of prominent state Senate Republicans [pushed back against the redistricting process](https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5836216:x). South Carolina senators take pride in being deliberative and resisting external pressures
Congress. Alabama [has successfully](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/supreme-court-alabama-republicans-new-congressional-maps) petitioned the US supreme court to allow it to eliminate a district currently represented by a Black Democrat. Instead, it will use a map this cycle that
Black churches, no Indigenous faith leaders and no mainline Protestants. Hegseth’s own writings foreground anti-Muslim rhetoric and envisage a US military “taking sides” in a coming American civil war, as previously reported
2023 law that reserves 33 percent of seats in parliament and state assemblies for women, but has linked the move to a sweeping redrawing of parliamentary constituencies, sharpening political tensions. “We’re set to take