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Ohio’s only majority minority congressional district may lose that status in remapping
Today 5:30 AM
The congressional district that was formerly represented by Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Louis Stokes is likely to no longer be majority minority after it s remapped.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - After a 1960s Supreme Court decision established the principle of “one person, one vote,” civil rights attorney Louis Stokes asked the nation’s highest court to declare that Cleveland’s congressional districts unfairly divided its African American community to dilute Black political power.
When justices ruled in Stokes’ favor, Ohio’s legislature created the state’s only majority minority congressional district, and Stokes went on to represent it for 15 terms. ....

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