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'Backwards at warp speed': How the South is systematically erasing Black power

Upstract [Unofficial] May 12, 2026
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Yesterday I spoke with Tennessee state representative Justin Jones, one of the nation’s young Black leaders who’s been a rising star in Tennessee politics, about the Supreme Court’s shameful April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Jones told me that,…

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