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But in truth, they only shared a handful of encounters before making “Black Bag.”

“Will we, as a Black community, be wiped out?” said Hughes, who runs the Black-focused mutual aid organization My Tribe Rise.

The Democrats dominated politics during the middle third of the 20th century, even as the party couldn’t even agree on whether to let Black people vote.

“It’s coming from everyone, it’s coming from Black officers, it’s coming from women, it’s coming from Asians,” said commissioner Teresa Sanchez-Gordon, the panel’s newest member and a retired Superior Court judge.

At the core of these lawsuits lies a critical challenge to the strength of American democracy, particularly for Black Southerners.