Category Archives: Politics & Government

Congressional maps approved by the House and Senate in the redistricting session fail to add a majority-minority Black district and Governor John Bel Edwards calls them problematic. But until they rea...

Gary Chambers, candidate for U-S Senate, announced today that his campaign has raised nearly six hundred thousand dollars since its launch last month. For a relative unknown like Chambers, that's no s...

Lawmakers have just a week left to complete their work on drawing new districts for Congress, the state legislature, courts and more. The special session on redistricting must end next Sunday, the 20t...

When Republican Representative Daryl Deshotel of Marksville deposited $1 million of his own into his campaign account it sent up a flare that the freshman lawmaker might have his eye on a higher offic...

House Speaker Clay Schexnayder has created a special legislative committee to look into the death of Ronald Greene. a Black man who died in 2019 after he was beaten by State Troopers following a high-...

A St. Tammany Parish state Senator proposes two bills to protect citizens from discrimination based upon their COVID vaccination status. Senator Patrick McMath, of Covington, says his Senate Bill 1, i...

Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Second Congressional District Congressman Troy Carter announced his first annual Black History Month Essay Contest. The contest is ope...

The state Senate has approved a new Congressional district map that maintains the status quo and that's just one majority-minority district. Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields authored an amendment that ...

A proposed new Louisiana House District map would move a Black-majority district from central Louisiana to New Orleans' Mid-City Neighborhood. The district being eliminated is currently occupied by Na...

U.S. Labor Secretary Martin Walsh is in New Orleans today meeting with state and local officials to discuss workforce development and the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. New Orleans Congressman T...