BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Sonya Knox had cast her ballot. Now, she was going home to get her 18-year-old grandson. She had just learned he was registered to vote. At 65, she wasn’t about to let the young Black man sit out an election when she feared the rights that made her own vote possible […] The post Louisiana Lost…

On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court gutted an important part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, with a 6-3 ruling in the case Louisiana v. Callais. The ruling rejected a Louisiana voting map that would have created a second majority-Black congressional district. Civil rights advocates and organizers around the nation…