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In a historic vote, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board chose Black members to serve as its president and vice president Thursday — the first time in modern memory
The outlines of a timeline to decide the legality of Louisiana’s congressional district map are coming into focus now that a federal district judge has given state lawmakers until Jan. 30 to produce a new map that’s in sync with provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act.
SCOTUS Orders Louisiana To Add Second Majority-Black House District Arjun Singh on June 26, 2023 The Supreme Court on Monday ordered Louisiana to create a
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered Louisiana to create a second black-majority congressional district, following its decision in Allen v. Milligan.
When Press Robinson registered to vote in South Carolina in 1963, he was handed a copy of the U.S. Constitution and told to read it aloud and interpret it. Robinson, then a college sophomore, wasn’t surprised. He heard stories from others in the South’s Black community who faced Jim Crow-era methods to suppress Black votes – from literacy tests to poll taxes to the infamous “jellybean test" that required prospective voters to guess how many of the small candies were in a jar.