Civil rights leaders and Democrats are calling attention to a new congressional map passed by North Carolina Republicans that is set to weaken Black political representation, per theGrio.

The newly approved map reshapes North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, a seat currently held by Rep. Don Davis, the state’s only Black member of Congress. The change shifts the district, largely made up of rural Black voters, from competitively Democratic to nearly unwinnable for the party. Residents in the district have elected a Black Democrat since 1992.

“We’ve seen this pattern before. It’s what I call surgical racism with surgical precision — the use of redistricting and voting laws to divide, diminish, and deny,” civil rights leader Bishop William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People’s

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