Joint Center Quoted in the State Affairs on the Rising in Black Political Representation

Joint Center President Dedrick Asante-Muhammad was quoted in the State Affairs on the midterm election results, the increase in Black representation in government, and what this means for governing power.

From the article: “What sets this election apart, Asante-Muhammad said, is where the progress happened. Black political power throughout most of U.S. history has come from majority-Black districts won through the Voting Rights Act, which has been challenged in courts. ‘On Tuesday, the biggest advances came in statewide races, where a candidate has to build a majority across an entire state,’ Asante-Muhammad said. ‘Black leaders are no longer winning only where Black voters are the majority. They are winning statewide, in the South, the Midwest and the West.'”

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