Cleo Fields, a longtime Baton Rouge politician, won more than 50 percent of the vote in an open primary, negating the need ...

Democrat Cleo Fields has won a Louisiana congressional race in a recently redrawn second majority-Black district. That flips ...

Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...

The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and ...

The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district ...

Alexandria's 16th Street Bridge is now a modern concrete structure that crosses Bayou Rapides in the same location that a ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana's congressional map with two mostly Black districts. The court won't hear arguments until ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal over Louisiana’s more Democratic-friendly congressional districts, ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal court and won a ruling from U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick that the ...

"Without this Court's intervention, the State will be sued again no matter what it does," Louisiana Solicitor General J.