A 3-minute crash course in Alabama's voting maps

Summary

The fight over Alabama's voting maps shows just how low the Roberts Court will go in allowing Republicans to draw Black candidates out of office. And Montgomery, the birthplace of the civil rights movement, has seen again and again what happens when they lack that representation. "The neighborhoods that were torn down to build those interstates, that was the heart of the Black business district," said Evan Milligan, executive director of Alabama Forward, a nonpartisan civic advocacy group. "And when you're driving through Montgomery on the interstate, you're driving on the graves of, like…

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