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@TheRoot @BlackVotersMtr @blackgirlsdream The Constitution was supposed to end the era in which Black citizenship was provisional. Yet every generation has been asked to prove again that equal protection means what it says. Redistricting is only the newest language of the same refusal.

After last month’s Supreme Court ruling weakened the Voting Rights Act, leaders are warning that Black political power could be reshaped for generations. LaTosha Brown, co-founder of @BlackVotersMtr and @blackgirlsdream, reflects on this moment and what Black people need to do.

@NBCNews @esglaude The fight over redistricting isn’t just about lines on a map. It’s about power, memory, and representation. Communities spent generations fighting for political voice. So when maps change in ways that could weaken Black representation, people are going to-and should-ask why.

The Congressional Black Caucus reached a record 58 House members this Congress. Now, thanks to a Supreme Court redistricting ruling that’s expected to dramatically diminish Black representation on Capitol Hill, the CBC is fighting a five-alarm fire that could devastate its membership. nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

@CBSNews @archivekamala The voter suppression we see today didn’t appear out of nowhere. It’s fruit from a very old tree. After Reconstruction, when Black Americans gained political power, the response was violence, poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation, and erasure. Evolved methods-Same objectives

Former Vice President Kamala Harris discussed the implications of the recent Supreme Court decision narrowing the Voting Rights Act during an appearance on a Win With Black Women organizing call Wednesday. “What they are doing is, they are backdooring racism behind politics to get to this decision and to justify them, what is happening in particular right now in all the southern states," Harris said. "This is obviously a time for us to fight."

@breakfastclubam @LorenLorosa On another note. I see you’re into your books in the club. Check out my debut, The Last Drop, I think it’ll favor your flavor.

In an interview, Nicki Minaj explained how she was always, deep down, a Trump supporter and how she feels the music industry influences people to become Democrats. She also speaks on losing trust in Obama and Gov. Newsom. Tap into the latest w/ @lorenlorosa

@jamamiss16 @donnabrazile @queenie4rmnola @YahooNews Oppression isn’t just about what’s happening in a single moment—it’s also about systems that still produce unequal outcomes today. That’s the conversation. I’m stepping out of it here.

@Cartiswrites @donnabrazile @queenie4rmnola @YahooNews Who is being oppressed right now?

Democrats say Republican lawmaker must resign for agreeing with 'cotton-picking' remark yahoo.com/news/articles/… via @@YahooNews

@jamamiss16 @donnabrazile @queenie4rmnola @YahooNews If we want a serious conversation about progress, it has to include honest context—not just personal interpretation.

@jamamiss16 @donnabrazile @queenie4rmnola @YahooNews Nobody is asking anyone to “get over” history. We’re talking about what history built into present-day systems—wealth, land, schools, and opportunity. Hardship is universal. Oppression is structural and inherited.

@jamamiss16 @donnabrazile @queenie4rmnola @YahooNews This isn’t the oppression Olympics. It’s about confronting history honestly.

@jamamiss16 @donnabrazile @queenie4rmnola @YahooNews But there’s a difference between surviving hardship… and a system legally built for generations around your permanent enslavement, exclusion, and dispossession while others accumulated wealth, land, political power, and institutional protection from it.

@CNN_NewsNight @Bakari_Sellers “It’s just words.” That’s how America dismisses things until those same words become policy, culture, and normalized hate. That’s why The Last Drop matters. The conversation was never finished.

Bakari Sellers: We'll be first generation to leave this country worse than we inherited #NewsNight @Bakari_Sellers

Not noise.
Not performance. Voices with urgency.
Voices with poetry.
Voices with moral force. #SpokenWord #WritersOfX #BlackLiterature #PoetryCommunity #TheLastDrop

What happened to the voices that once shook the room? The ones that made people sit down.
Listen.
Question.
Move.

@Justinjpearson Washington’s redistricting battles are connected to slavery not because Washington practiced slavery, but because the entire U.S. system of representation — and the laws governing racial vote dilution — were shaped by the political legacy of slavery and its aftermath.

We cannot give up on the South.

@Justinjpearson A lot of people underestimate how powerful voices become once they start connecting across communities. That fear of collective awakening is deeply woven into The Last Drop.

What happened in the State of Tennessee was the largest and swiftest disenfranchisement of Black people that we've seen in at least a century. It's on all of us to organize, mobilize, and participate in bigger numbers than their maps account for.

@RepJasmine The fight over who gets heard in America has never really ended. It’s evolved. That’s part of what inspired me to write The Last Drop — a story about how one voice can force a country into uncomfortable conversations.

Over 3 million Virginians spoke loud and clear in a free and fair election — and now, because MAGA Republicans didn’t like the outcome, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the results of the election. Let’s call this what it is: voter suppression. They keep losing when people actually vote, so instead of changing their policies, they keep trying to silence the voices of the people. The power belongs to the people — and every attempt to silence voters only exposes how afraid they are of the people’s voice.

If The Nickel Boys and The Vanishing Half had a baby… It would demand reparations. The Last Drop, in Amazon: a.co/d/0d9HTg56

This book needs to be a movie. A Chicago coffee shop. A viral moment. A constitutional crisis. THE LAST DROP has the story, the stakes, and the soul. Hollywood, you seeing this? 📖🎬 Available now: a.co/d/08ZOFgMM #TheLastDrop #BookToScreen #DreamCast

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