The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule on Friday in a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in ...

The storm remains disorganized on Wednesday but still has time to strengthen over the Gulf before making landfall on Thursday ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed with a lower-court ruling that the latest congressional map very likely diluted the power of Black voters.

A major case in Alabama could affect Louisiana's congressional district maps. The 2020 Census showed 1/3 of Louisiana's population is black, so some argue there should be 2 "majority black" districts.

The 2020 census revealed Louisiana’s Black population increased while the white population decreased. Still, Louisiana’s Legislature passed a congressional map in 2022 that limited Black voters’ ...

Louisiana officials react after the U.S. Supreme Court delayed its ruling on Louisiana's congressional map and will rehear the case, with Justice Clarence Thomas warning that race-based districts may ...

In roughly three-fourths of Louisiana parishes, deaths have begun to outnumber births. That's a major warning sign for the labor force, economy and general health of communities throughout the state.

With bipartisan support, a proposed Louisiana congressional map that would create a second majority-Black district sailed through the state Senate on Wednesday and will advance to the House ...

At issue is the Louisiana legislature's creation of a Black-majority congressional district, which a group of voters claimed ...

In 2022, Louisiana's Republican-controlled legislature redrew the state's congressional map to reflect population changes from the 2020 Census.

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to uphold Louisiana's congressional map, which features two majority-Black districts.

A group of Black Louisiana voters and civil rights organizations sued, arguing the map unfairly limited Black voting power in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Black residents make up approximately ...