When First District Congressman G.K. Butterfield announced his unexpected retirement from Congress last week, he blamed it, in part, on a “racially gerrymandered” voting map that will “disadvantage African American communities all across the first congressional district.” In short, instead of redrawing Butterfield’s district according to the mandates of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to […]
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