Op-Ed: How Racial Gerrymandering is Hollowing Out the Black Electorate

Former Joint Center Policy Intern and University of California Student Jaidyn McKinnie penned an op-ed published in the Washington Informer titled “How Racial Gerrymandering is Hollowing Out the Black Electorate.” The piece focuses on the attempts to redistrict electoral maps and suppress the Black voting power.

From the op-ed: “The second Trump administration is advancing a national policy infrastructure aimed at reshaping the democratic system from within, not by suppressing votes directly, but by manipulating the structures that determine who gets represented at all. Across the country, redistricting battles are being used to minimize the influence of Black voters and weaken the power and electability of Black legislators who represent them. These maps fracture diverse districts, erase majority-Black constituencies, and recast racial gerrymandering as partisan strategy.”

Click here to read the piece.