GOP redistricting battles in Alabama and other states raise concerns about voter suppression
Kenya Goodson, a 46-year-old Black woman from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has voted in every election since she was 19.
But last week's Supreme Court decision to allow Alabama's new congressional map -- which voting rights advocates say dilutes the power of Black voters -- to remain in place has left Goodson, who volunteers to register voters, discouraged about casting a ballot herself.
"I was really very hurt, you know, and angry really by the decision by our Supreme Court," said Goodson, an adjunct professor at the University of Montevallo. "There are people that are making decisions, not because it's the law, but they're making decisions to uphold White supremacy by diluting my vote."
"It is discouraging because I don't know what I could do as a citizen to change anything," she added.
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