Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will decide, probably by next summer, whether Louisiana has one or two Black majority ...

Gabe Amo, the first Black representative in Congress from Rhode Island, won reelection on Tuesday.Amo easily beat his ...

Veteran politician Rep. Barbara Lee entered public service inspired by a Black woman and may now step down, having fulfilled ...

Democrats are still working through the stages of grief after Kamala Harris’ defeat to Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Surrounded by a hastily assembled group of campaign volunteers, Democrat Janelle Bynum declared victory in Oregon’s closest ...

Bynum currently holds an 8,575 vote edge over Chavez-DeRemer across the district, which covers all or portions of six ...

With the victory by Shomari Figures, Alabama will most likely have two Black representatives in Congress at the same time for ...

WASHINGTON — Voters for the first time elected two Black women to serve simultaneously in the Senate and sent an openly ...

Louisiana has elected its second Black member of Congress for the first time in history and flipped the 6th Congressional ...

Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s political journey began with a pivotal encounter with Shirley Chisholm—the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black woman to seek a major party’s ...

Several candidates are poised to become the first of their demographic to represent their states in the House or Senate.