The U-S Supreme Court has ruled that Louisiana’s Congressional map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander because it took race into account to draw the lines. In 2024, Louisiana lawmakers created a Congressional map with a second majority Black congressional map, which is District Six, represented by Democrat Cleo Fields. Attorney General Liz Murrill is not surprised by the Supreme Court’s decision….

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Fields says while the Supreme Court did not strike down the 1985 Voting Rights Act with its ruling, it might as well have…

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For the last six decades the Voting Rights Act has resulted in the election of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels. This Supreme Court ruling will have repercussions on political maps across the country.

Now that Louisiana’s Congressional map has been thrown out because of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, when will the state legislature draw a new map? LSU political science professor Robert Hogan…

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There are multiple reports that the Landry Administration and legislative leaders are leaning towards postponing the U-S House races, so a new map can be drawn. The U-S Senate primary would still go on as scheduled and early voting for that primary begins Saturday.

Louisiana’s first patient to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease has left the Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New Orleans. Gene Therapy Program Director Benjamin Watkins says this new gene editing is a functional cure for those with sickle cell…

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Sickle cell is a painful, unpredictable chronic condition.