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The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history.
Tag: Voting Rights Act
When does Black history become history, not just race, in the eyes of the law?
Black communities stretching across Louisiana did not suddenly become connected when legislators drew a congressional district around them.
Loud enough for Washington to hear
Residents of the enclaves of District 6 carry a shared inheritance: cancer, pennies-an-hour wages, broken sewer lines, and highways aimed at their front doors. When divided into separate voting districts, those griefs were left unheard and isolated.
Ribbon of Black enclaves reflects deep Louisiana history
The neighborhoods that the old 6th District gathered up—strung along rivers, railroads, and interstates from Shreveport to Baton Rouge—are the exact communities left scattered apart by two centuries of plantations, Jim Crow, and systemic disinvestment.
Louisiana’s 250-mile ‘snake’ district, built by grudges and human geography
Within the serpentine 6th District, Black voters face similar struggles with low wages, poor healthcare, and a fight for historic recognition
Louisiana and Alabama map battles renew voting rights fight after 61 years
Advocates celebrated the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, even after Supreme Court rulings gutted key federal protections and threw Southern congressional maps into chaos.
The fields are still there: red beans and resistance
My mother has been saying it my whole life. Fifty-one years of hearing it. And on May 16, 2026, the same day she passed away and left me with the torch to continue this work, 800,000 people proved she was not just warning us.
Monday’s Supreme Court voting-case order and its many problems
The Supreme Court on Monday — just five days after the court’s Callais decision — issued an order putting the ruling into effect immediately, bypassing a 32-day period that the court would have ordinarily waited before sending the judgment back to the lower courts.
The looming return of Jim Crow to Louisiana, America’s second-Blackest state
The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the central provision that has protected minority voters from discriminatory maps and election systems for 60 years.
