New Orleans native and former educator Julienne Louis-Anderson writes that what is happening in Louisiana is not just policy but a blueprint, as attacks on Black voting power and democratic institutions spread from the South to the rest of the nation.
Black voting power
Federal court rejects Alabama GOP’s defiant voting map, will draw new map that expands Black voting power
At issue in the Alabama case was whether the power of Black voters was diluted by dividing them into districts where White voters dominate.
