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Black Democrats confront their post-Voting Rights Act crisis
The Congressional Black Caucus faces an existential crisis as the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling threatens to reduce its membership by up to one-third through southern-state redistricting. Black Democrats are divided over endorsing non-Black candidates, exemplified by tensions in South Florida where a white Democrat, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, seeks a historically Black district seat.
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