‘All eyes ought to be on the South’: Imani Perry and Eddie Glaude on the GOP’s ‘white power grab’

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Southern states are taking advantage of a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions in order to quickly re-make their congressional maps ahead of November’s midterms. In effect, the political power of many Black Americans are being taken away. “All eyes ought to be on the South,” Harvard professor Imani Perry tells Antonia Hylton. Princeton professor Eddie Glaude adds that what’s happening is “a political will to white power.”

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