Summary: <p>Detroit, Michigan is the largest Black-majority city in the United States, with almost 78-percent of the population Black. <a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2022/08/13/african-american-leaders-lament-loss-of-black-representation-for-detroit/">And since 1955, Detroit has been represented in Congress by at least one Black representative</a>. But a redistricting process and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Michigan%27s_13th_Congressional_District">a primary in which 8 of 9 Black candidates split 71-percent of the vote left the only non-Black candidate, Shri Thanedar, to win with just 28-percent of the vote</a>.</p> <p>We speak with <a href="https://mariomorrow.com/mario-morrow-sr/">Mario Morrow</a>, political consultant based in Detroit and CEO of Mario Morrow and Associates, and <a href="https://twitter.com/andragillespie">Andra Gillespie</a>, political scientist at Emory University, and explore <a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2022/08/13/african-american-leaders-lament-loss-of-black-representation-for-detroit/">the history of Black representation in Michigan</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/03/detroit-black-members-congress-electoral-reform">the political and electoral forces which led to this result</a>, and the implications of this outcome on the Black community in Detroit.</p>
