Judge rules in favor of DeSoto County redistricting plan
“Redistricting is not easy, but our goal was always to adopt a lawful plan that fairly represented the people of this county,” Supervisor Lee Caldwell said.
Topic: Voting Rights Act
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June 2026
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Calkins: Otis Sanford tells his story — and it’s one that you should hear.
When Otis Sanford was growing up in Mississippi, his father would ask him, “What’s in the news?” Answering that question has taken Sanford to places neither of them could possibly have imagined. Now he’s captured the journey in a new book.
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May 2026
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Sanford: GOP gerrymandering of 9th District is Jim Crow racism revisited
My mother, along with a handful of other Black Panola County residents, registered to vote during one of the most precarious times for Black people in the South. It came just six days after the bodies of three Civil Rights workers were discovered in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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Calkins: If Memphis really matters, don’t carve it into thirds
“Memphis is in a corner. Memphis is its own place. To divide the 9th Congressional District into thirds would be ‘like putting the Black vote in the back of the bus.’”
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February 2022
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How did Memphis’ Democratic congressional district survive redistricting?
A brief history of the Voting Rights Act in Tennessee, and Shelby County’s protected congressional district.
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