The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...

even though Black residents make up roughly one-third of Louisiana’s population. When it redrew the map to include two majority-Black districts, a group of “non-African American ...

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

Around one-third of the state’s total population is black ... a group of self-described “non-African American voters” challenged the map as a racial gerrymander in violation of the ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into a messy legal battle over how to fix a racially gerrymandered design.

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

In the November 2020 election, Joe Biden received 82% of the vote in the eastern part of Dearborn. In that same area, Vice President Kamala Harris received only 23%. The nearly 60-percentage point ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population ... a group of self-described non-African Americans, filed suit in western Louisiana, claiming that the new map was also illegal because it ...

Al Jazeera looks at the US economy, demographics, geography and other indicators ahead of the November 5 elections.

The new map came under a legal challenge, this time from a group that identified themselves as “non-African American voters.” It contended the Legislature went too far in trying to comply with ...

Old Town has long acted as a mixing bowl for Chicago's varied population ... to Washington Park (home of the DuSable Museum of African American History) by the Midway Plaisance, a park-like ...