A Supreme Court challenge to Louisiana's congressional map could reshape how race factors into district drawing, potentially ...

Poll watchers were tasked with identifying ineligible voters, duplicate voting, or ballot tampering. In some states, watchers ...

AlbrightWord in Black The Supreme Court’s October 2025 session may be its most consequential yet in the long fight for Black freedom. Louisiana v. Callais, which was reargued on Oct. 15, is the latest ...

Black residents in a newly created Louisiana congressional district fear they could lose their representation under a case being heard before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Though the provision was dropped after it faced backlash, the bill initially would have given the State Department the power ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — For nearly three decades, the small town of Mansfield was represented in Louisiana’s congressional delegation by white Republicans, even though its population is about 80% ...

A federal judge told the Trump administration on Friday to continue funding for food stamps during the government shutdown, a ...

“Wilton Simpson plows ahead with 2026 Farm Bill” via Ryan Nicol of Florida Politics — Agriculture Commissioner Simpson is rolling out the 2026 Florida Farm Bill, calling it a “wide-ranging proposal to ...

Callais about the last remaining section of the Voting Rights Act, a civil-rights law designed to ensure that states could not get in the way of nonwhite citizens voting. The law was put in place to ...

African American voters in Louisiana have long faced systemic barriers to fair representation.