The looming return of Jim Crow to Louisiana, America’s second Blackest state

The looming return of Jim Crow to Louisiana, America’s second Blackest state

The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s second Blackest state

Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966 than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades. Within months, more than 1.4 million Black Louisianans could lose meaningful representation in Congress and at every level of government — not because they stopped voting, but because the U.S. Supreme Court may soon make it legal to erase their power. The Voting Rights A…