In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests

State Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, interacts with protesters as he leaves the Senate chamber after a special session of the state legislature to redraw the U. S. congressional voting map in Nashville, Tennessee, in May. George Walker IV/AP Not two weeks after the Tennessee legislature carved Memphis into three congressional districts this spring, in a move designed to eliminate Democratic representation, Republican state Sen.