A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this year that further weakened the Voting Rights Act raised the possibility of a record drop in Black representation in Congress.
But a Democratic blue wave in the midterm elections helped forestall such a decline for now.
Most notably, Rep. Shomari Figures, a Black Democrat,
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