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WFAE The city of Charlotte and CMS need census data to draw new districts to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling of "One Person, One Vote." With the release of that delayed, both are scrambling to determine how they can draw new maps in time for their fall elections. The release of highly detailed, precinct-by-precinct population counts from the 2020 census has been delayed by several months, which could impact the elections for the Charlotte City Council and Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board. The Census Bureau announced Wednesday that the data – known as PL 94-171 files — may no...

by Alison M. Parker Alison M. Parker is the chair and the Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell. Portrait of Mary Church Terrell by Betsy Graves Reynau, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration     Today, Black women’s influence in political campaigns is visible and dramatic. In recent presidential and midterm elections, over 90% of Black women’s votes went to the Democratic candidates. Preliminary figures for the 2020 presidential election indicate that the Biden/Harri...

The remedy to this “devaluation of Black votes,” he says, is to count Black votes twice. “Because white votes currently count more than Black ones, double-counting Black votes would restore electoral balance. Vote reparations would be a giant step toward remedying our nation’s long history of denying and devaluing Black votes,” he wrote. He also stated that the logic wouldn’t be limited to Blacks. At the end of a paragraph about injustices committed against American Indians, he wrote “we should include in vote reparations others who have suffered similar disenfranchisement.” T...

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