{"id":49197,"date":"2026-05-08T01:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49197"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:38:50","slug":"tennessee-passes-new-redistricting-map-breaks-up-states-lone-democratic-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49197","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Passes New Redistricting Map, Breaks Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Tennessee Passes New Redistricting Map, Breaks 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 Passes New Redistricting Map, Breaks Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a new congressional map into law on Thursday that slices up Memphis to scatter Black voters into neighboring districts, a move intended to eliminate the state\u2019s last Democratic House seat.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI declare it passed.\u201d Chanting: \u201cHands off \u2014 Memphis.\u201d Chanting: \u201cThe people, united, will never be divided.\u201d \u201cSomebody who drew the map \u2014 divided the Black vote up in the three districts to where they are a minority, and they don\u2019t have enough influence to elect a member of their own choosing.\u201d Chanting: \u201cBlack voters matter. Black voters matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a new congressional map into law on Thursday that slices up Memphis to scatter Black voters into neighboring districts, a move intended to eliminate the state\u2019s last Democratic House seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Emily Cochrane and Alisa Shodiyev Kaff<\/p>\n<p>May 7, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Tennessee Passes New Redistricting Map, Breaks Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District transcript Back transcript Tennessee Passes New Redistricting Map, Breaks Up State\u2019s Lone Democratic District Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee signed a new congressional map into law on Thursday that slices up Memphis to scatter Black voters into neighboring districts, a move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2579,5357,9933,21935,2415,1385,8093,1561,8273],"class_list":{"0":"post-49197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-breaks","9":"tag-democratic","10":"tag-district","11":"tag-lone","12":"tag-map","13":"tag-passes","14":"tag-redistricting","15":"tag-states","16":"tag-tennessee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49197","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=49197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}