Harry Edwards desak strategi untuk boikot atlet NAACP

Sosiolog dan aktivis Dr. Harry Edwards menyampaikan pandangannya mengenai seruan terbaru NAACP bagi atlet sekolah menengah kulit hitam untuk memboikot universitas di negara bagian yang telah menyusun ulang daerah pemilihan setelah Mahkamah Agung membatasi Undang-Undang Hak Pilih.

Edwards, 83 tahun, mencatat bahwa negara bagian termasuk Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, dan Louisiana telah bergerak untuk menghapuskan daerah pemilihan dengan mayoritas kulit hitam. Ia mengatakan usulan tersebut menargetkan tempat-tempat dengan keterikatan kuat pada sepak bola perguruan tinggi, di mana banyak atletnya berkulit hitam. Edwards menyatakan bahwa ia tidak menentang gagasan tersebut namun menekankan perlunya perencanaan yang matang dan gerakan politik yang lebih luas untuk mendukung para atlet.

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Supreme Court speeds up redistricting changes for southern states

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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a series of recent orders allowing Louisiana and Alabama to redraw congressional maps that eliminate Black opportunity districts. The rulings came in the Louisiana v. Callais case and related Alabama litigation. They mark a sharp shift in the court's approach to voting rights enforcement under the Voting Rights Act.

Thousands gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday to protest recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional districts and to retrace steps from the 1965 civil rights march.

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Following the U.S. Supreme Court's April 29, 2026, Callais v. Louisiana decision striking down Louisiana's congressional map as a racial gerrymander (as covered in this series), experts warn the reinterpretation of Voting Rights Act protections could endanger minority representation nationwide. Louisiana has extended suspension of its U.S. House primaries until at least July 2026 amid expectations of a redraw.

Louisiana Republicans approved a new congressional map that eliminates one of the state's two majority-Black House districts. The change follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the Voting Rights Act.

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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's April 29, 2026, decision in Louisiana v. Callais declaring the state's congressional map an unconstitutional racial gerrymander (as covered previously in this series), Louisiana has suspended its upcoming primaries for U.S. House races. The ruling affects one of the state's two Democratic-held majority-Black districts. Other primaries, including U.S. Senate, proceed May 16.

Tennessee Republicans voted Thursday to pass new congressional maps expected to eliminate the state's only Democratic U.S. House seat. Republican Governor Bill Lee signed the measure into law shortly afterward. The move followed a Supreme Court decision striking down certain majority-black districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.

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Rep. Wesley Hunt, a Texas Republican, criticized Democrats during a House Judiciary Committee hearing for comparing voter identification requirements to the Jim Crow era, arguing the analogy minimizes the historical reality of legalized segregation and racial terror.

 

 

 

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