Exploring Gerrymandering News Today

"How Many Bubbles Are in a Bar of Soap" is not only the title of an artwork in a powerful and thought-provoking new exhibit at a Little Rock gallery, its a question that some Jim Crow-era Black voters in Alabama were required to answer to cast their ballots as part of a "literacy test." Of course, the answer is impossible to know and was one of several ways Black people in the South were kept from voting.

One Arkansan artist has been using art to bring light to dark times— and his latest work talks about & shares the history of the disenfranchisement of voters.