Now, legislators intend to split up Memphis, so all nine of Tennessee’s congressional districts are majority white. President ...

Tennessee lawmakers unveil a proposed congressional map that redraws the majority-Black and lone Democratic district.

An unhoused man rides out Hurricane Ida from his bed under a highway overpass in New Orleans in August 2021. A bill in the state legislature would subject unhoused people to fines, jail time, or even ...

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A bill that allows the state Agriculture Department to review reports of stolen or lost livestock is awaiting the governor’s ...

Advocates warned the decision could ramp up efforts to dismantle majority-Black congressional districts. A push is already ...

One federal lawmaker said the decision “ignores our country’s history of racism and reopens the door to the Jim Crow era.” ...

Exactly one month after Moore’s death, another shooting incident occurred at a different VA clinic in Georgia. On March 17, a social worker named Nicholas Crews, 34, was shot by a VA patient, Lawrence ...

A mass shooting in Shreveport's Cedar Grove neighborhood reveals how poverty, policing, and guns combine to trap Black families with abusers.