Louisiana State Sen. Royce Duplessis, a Democrat, has announced he’s running for New Orleans mayor, after initially saying he ...

The governor himself remained mum last week on whom he might select from Illinois’ Democratic bench. The key factors observers said candidates will need to bring: the ability to run the state and ...

Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song,” Robert Mann examines the song's history and how it shaped the life of Jimmie Davis ...

The committee that the LSU Board of Supervisors has chosen to select the LSU system's next president has a big job ahead of ...

The race for South Carolina’s next governor is heating up. Two republican candidates have announced their bid this week, ...

The Louisiana case could affect the balance of power in a narrowly divided Congress and shape how states factor race into the ...

The justices asked that the case, which has implications for the political power of Black voters, be reargued next term.

The Supreme Court ordered further arguments over Louisiana's congressional map that created a second majority-Black district.

The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court’s conservative justices suggested they ...

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