Detroit may soon have fewer Black legislators in Michigan’s capitol and no Black representation in Congress for the first time in more than 50 years.
Last week’s Michigan primary — the first held since the creation of a new citizen-led redistricting commission tasked with drawing fair congressional and state legislative districts — could be a harbinger of bad things to come for Detroit, the state’s largest Black community and the nation’s largest majority-Black city.
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