Louisiana Republicans move to eliminate majority-Black U.S. House district, sparking anger and confusion
BATON ROUGE, La.: As a child, Leona Tate, one of the “New Orleans Four” and the first black students to desegregate public schools in the Deep South, endured racial slurs and death threats as armed U.S. Marshals escorted them to class.More than sixty years later, Tate told Republican state lawmakers on Friday that their proposal … Read more