Democrat Alyia Gaskins was elected as the mayor of Alexandria, per NBC Washington. The win makes Gaskins the first Black ...

After redistricting in 1996, Fields was put in a then-White majority ... Rouge before the maps were redrawn in January. He is second vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and serves on ...

New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has ... "First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well." ...

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

The Supreme Court is taking up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black ...

For Elle Schnetzler, director and owner of the birthing center BirthCare & Women's Health in Alexandria ... Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related issue than white ...

He backed a map that created a new majority Black district stretching across the state, linking parts of the Shreveport, Alexandria, Lafayette and Baton Rouge areas. A different set of plaintiffs ...

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