Judicial District Attorney Tony Clayton has appealed the sentence of the McCormick brothers, who were convicted of money ...

Although a third of Louisianians are Black, less than a third of state legislative districts have majority Black populations.

Louisiana District 51; State Senator D. A. “Butch” Gautreaux, Louisiana District 21; Dr. Tim Tregle, Mayor of Morgan City; and Emile Babin, President & CEO of the St. Inc. Kenneth G.

Louisiana’s 2nd District, which is majority Black, is currently represented by Rep. Troy Carter, a Democrat. The new map will lower the Black voting-age population in Carter’s district to 51% ...

Louisiana lawmakers this week will weigh ... The 2nd District's population would be about 51% Black. 2nd District: Iberville, St. Martin, Assumption, St. James, St. John, parts of St. Charles ...

The new district has a Black voting age population of roughly 51%. It stretches from Shreveport, in Louisiana's northwest corner, to Baton Rouge, in the southeast, and connects predominantly Black ...

Democrat Cleo Fields will serve Louisiana's new majority Black 6th Congressional District after securing 51% of the vote on Tuesday night. Fields avoided a runoff between Republican Elbert ...

"The district court’s findings are demonstrably misguided and warrant this Court’s emergency intervention," attorneys for Louisiana said ... Attorneys for 51-year-old defendant Russell Bucklew ...

The Supreme Court appeared split along partisan lines Monday over the creation of a second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana, a case that could affect the balance of power in ...

The new map lowers the Black voting-age population in Carter’s district to 51 percent. The addition of the majority-Black seat in Louisiana also adds to the list of recent remapping decisions in ...