The Legislature's special session on the redistricting of congressional and state seats will be convened on Tuesday evening. Here's how things could change, ...

A panel of federal judges rejected Louisiana's new congressional map, which made two of the state's six districts majority-Black. This state's map from 2022 was also federally blocked.

A major case in Alabama could affect Louisiana's congressional district maps. The 2020 Census showed 1/3 of Louisiana's population is black, so some argue there should be 2 "majority black" districts.

Although Louisiana overall has seen a small population growth rate of 2.7%, the 2020 census results show that northern parishes have experienced significant population loss while suburban areas in ...

A federal judge ruled on Monday that Louisiana’s new congressional map represented a racial gerrymander and must be ... The 2020 census showed that the state’s Black population had grown by 3 ...

The new maps approved in a recent special session of the Republican-dominated Legislature are similar to existing maps, with boundary changes made to account for population shifts reflected in the ...

But it's Louisiana's Congressional map that will be the marquee debate. Louisiana's slight population growth over the last 10 years preserved all six of the state's Congressional seats.

A U.S. District judge will soon decide whether Louisiana must add more majority-Black districts to its state legislative map, after civil rights groups argued for that move on Monday. Inside a ...

Overall, Louisiana's population topped 4.6 million people, an anemic growth of only 2.7% from 2010 to 2020 that was well below the national average of 7.4% and behind nearly every other Southern ...

The federal three-judge panel tasked with deciding Louisiana's congressional future has ruled in a 2-1 decision that the map the Legislature drew in January that added a second majority-Black district ...

Waterproof, La. is a village in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, with a population of 688 as of the 2010 census. The village in 2010 was 91.7 percent African American.

Supreme Court allows Louisiana's congressional map with new, mostly Black district One lawyer who has argued the issue of voting rights before the Supreme Court called the case the biggest 'train ...