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    WATCH: New Doc Shows How Gerrymandering Suppresses Black Votes in North Carolina

    “Crooked Lines” explains how lawmakers design voting districts to influence elections and keep Black voters from electing their preferred candidates.

    catherine lizette gonzalez Nov 2, 2018 4:38PM EDT
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    Cozy Up With This Lively Podcast on Gerrymandering

    No, really, it’s actually interesting.

    Kenrya Rankin Mar 21, 2018 11:45AM EDT

    Clarence Thomas Joins SCOTUS Libs, Strikes Down Racist Gerrymandering

    The court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

    Kenrya Rankin May 22, 2017 3:00PM EDT
    Black man sits at desk, picture of Donald Trump is behind him.

    Trevor Noah Agrees With Trump, Says Election is Rigged

    The Daily Show Host: “I know that this systemic level of election rigging must have come as a shock to Americans. Because had Americans known, surely the world’s greatest democracy would have done something about it by now.”

    Kenrya Rankin Aug 9, 2016 12:14PM EDT

    Federal Court to Florida: Prison Gerrymandering is Unconstitutional

    “To treat the inmates the same as actual constituents makes no sense under any theory of one person, one vote, and indeed under any theory of representative democracy.”

    Kenrya Rankin Mar 22, 2016 1:57PM EDT

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