Black Majority District News Today

Voting rights groups had argued the new map was unconstitutional because it dismantled a district where Black citizens made up nearly half the registered voters.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency bid from Alabama, setting the stage for a new congressional map that will likely include a second Black majority district to account

A proposed new congressional district map that would create a second mostly Black district has been rejected by Louisiana’s Senate.

Senator Charles Schumer at a rally, June 21, 2017 On January 25, the organization Just Democracy mounted a billboard in Times Square urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to “reckon with the filibuster’s racist history and abolish the Senate loophole once and for all.” The billboard ran through Sunday, January 31, “to remind the 117th Congress that Black and Brown voters will not sit back while the filibuster blocks critical social justice and civil rights bills.” Just...