Ep 32 | They Finished the Job: The Voting Rights Act Is Gone in Everything but Name
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Ep 32 | They Finished the Job: The Voting Rights Act Is Gone in Everything but Name
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In 1965, the Voting Rights Act was the federal government's answer to a century of voter suppression against Black Americans. In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted its most powerful provision. On April 29, 2026, the Court finished what it started — and within days, states across the South began redrawing maps to strip Black communities of their congressional representation before November's midterm elections. Dr. Cole breaks down what the Voting Rights Act was, what the Supreme Court's Callais ruling actually means, and what is happening right now on the ground — including a deep dive into Memphis, Tennessee, where a 60 percent Black city just had its congressional district sliced into three pieces and handed to rural, white, conservative communities hundreds of miles away.
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