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Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power ... shape and how it divided cities and parishes “along racial lines.” ...
LOUISIANA, USA — We could learn next year if Louisiana must follow a lower court’s ruling to include a second majority-minority district. Part of the argument in the case drew national ...
Louisiana communities ... and large Black populations had up to 21 times the emissions of similar tracts with industrial facilities and large White populations. The top map shows the highest ...
Lawmakers from Northwest Louisiana, Jefferson Parish, Baton Rouge and the Bayou Region ... 70% white and 20% Black and the 6th District 69% white and 16% Black. Johnson noted his version of the map ...
(AP) — With bipartisan support, a proposed Louisiana congressional map that would create a second majority-Black district sailed ... which has white majorities in five of six congressional ...
A panel of federal judges has tossed out Louisiana ... power of Black Louisianians. The Supreme Court, however, allowed that map to be used for the 2022 midterms, and it saw five white Republicans ...
A federal appeals court in Louisiana ... Parish government’s historic and recent practices of steering polluting industries to majority Black districts while shielding predominantly white ...
Ollibeth Reddix got a first-hand look at the struggle Black ... Parish A proposed congressional map features a second majority-Black district that encompasses parts of Northeast Louisiana ...
In the United States, a landmark lawsuit filed in a federal court in Louisiana ... in predominantly Black communities in St James Parish. They cite “a legacy of slavery and white supremacy ...