{"id":49185,"date":"2026-05-07T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49185"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:44:54","slug":"tennessee-republicans-aim-to-break-up-states-lone-democratic-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49185","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Republicans Aim to Break Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Tennessee Republicans Aim to Break Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Tennessee Republicans Aim to Break Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Protesters denounced a redistricting effort led by Tennessee Republicans that would slice up Memphis, a majority-Black city, and Shelby County into three districts. The new congressional map would threaten Democrats\u2019 hold on their lone remaining House seat in the state.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cBlack voters matter.\u201d \u201cMemphis is Black. There\u2019s no denying that.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t touch me \u2014 don\u2019t touch me.\u201d \u201cIs there anything I can do or say to get you to leave?\u201d \u201cHands off \u2014 Memphis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Protesters denounced a redistricting effort led by Tennessee Republicans that would slice up Memphis, a majority-Black city, and Shelby County into three districts. The new congressional map would threaten Democrats\u2019 hold on their lone remaining House seat in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Axel Boada<\/p>\n<p>May 7, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Tennessee Republicans Aim to Break Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District transcript Back transcript Tennessee Republicans Aim to Break Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District Protesters denounced a redistricting effort led by Tennessee Republicans that would slice up Memphis, a majority-Black city, and Shelby County into three districts. The new congressional map would threaten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[9469,3018,5357,9933,21935,4627,1561,8273],"class_list":{"0":"post-49185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-aim","9":"tag-break","10":"tag-democratic","11":"tag-district","12":"tag-lone","13":"tag-republicans","14":"tag-states","15":"tag-tennessee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}