Tennessee GOP unveils map splitting Memphis majority-Black district

TENNESSEE IS NEXT Republicans are coming for the state’s only majority-Black district in Memphis, trying to redraw the map so it disappears. Rep. Justin J. Pearson is fighting back, standing up for his constituents and defending their right to have a voice. 📌Tennessee, 1 in 6 people are Black

A week after Supreme Court destroys Voting Rights Act Tennessee Republicans introduce new map to eliminate state's only majority Black district. This is straight up Jim Crow

Tennessee Republicans just unveiled their post-VRA congressional gerrymander. It would eliminate the one majority-Black and solidly Democratic district by splitting Memphis 3 ways to install a 9-0 Republican majority. It also splits Nashville several ways to protect scandal-tarred Rep. Andy Ogles

What Western Tennessee looks like in the new GOP map of the state: It splits Shelby County (Memphis) into three to eliminate the majority-Black district that's currently anchored there.

Democratic Governors and legislatures in CA, OR, WA, IL, CO, MN, NY, MD and everywhere else need to wipe out every Republican district in the coming years until the Congress has passed a new VRA that also reins in the Roberts #SCOTUS.

Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Tennessee Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a proposed congressional map that slices into the state’s majority-Black district and will likely secure them an all-GOP federal delegation. Tennessee unveils new congressional map poised to erase Dem seat www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Correction: Breaking News: Tennessee Republic-CONs unveiled a new congressional map carving up the state's only majority-Black district proving they're RACIST WHITE MAGAt's displaying fealty to a EPSTEIN PEDO RACIST FELON TRAITOR SERIAL LIAR SOCIOPATH NARCISSIST GRIFTER 👎

And just as I predicted, Tennessee today proposed congressional map that will eliminate its only Black-majority district (Shelby County, Memphis) by dividing the Black voters into white-majority districts and turning the state’s delegaction all white.

As Tennessee releases map carving up Memphis to prevent a majority-Black district.

Terrible things afoot in Tennessee. The legislature has already split Nashville into three Republican leaning districts; now they want to do the same thing with Memphis. Extreme, racist gerrymandering.

On tonight’s #Nightcap: Questions remain on the status of peace talks for the Iran War as the U.S. and Iran give conflicting signals – more protests erupt in Tennessee after state's Republicans unveil a new congressional map that cuts through its majority black district.

Because the BLM movement is seemingly dead, Republicans are working on black lives no longer mattering. MAGATs, on direct orders from racist Trump, are ensuring blacks lack any representation in many states and in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Tennessee unveils GOP-favored redistricting proposal thehill.com/homenews/sta... "The map would put a target on Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), who represents the state’s only majority-Black district and is the lone Democrat among Tennessee’s nine House members."

The effects have been immediate: Yesterday Tennessee Republicans proposed a congressional map which explicitly dilutes the state’s sole district with a majority of Black voters. "America has waged a war against Black voters for 150 years. It may just have won" www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/07/u...