BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Walking through the bright blue and yellow doors of Ryan Elementary School to cast his first-ever ballot, 18-year-old Altori Doherty had never heard the name Jamie Davis, a Black Democrat running to be Louisiana’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. Neither had 37-year-old Thedric Haney. Nor had 25-year-old Vivian Hayes. Down […]
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Black Congressional Representation Holds Steady Despite Fears of Steep Losses
One concern weighing on Black voters this year was: How many of their representatives — in particular those in the Congressional Black Caucus — would still have their seats after the 2026 midterm elections? That worry sprang from a specific source. Black voters were at risk of losing as many as 19 House seats as […]
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A Black Farmer Is Running to Become Louisiana’s Next U.S. Senator
NEW IBERIA, Louisiana — On a humid September afternoon, wedged between high stalks of sugarcane and old tractors, Jamie Davis felt right at home. He had traveled 170 miles from Waterproof, Louisiana, a 91% Black town that’s home to 576 people, to New Iberia, a bigger city, on another Black-owned farm. There, Davis and a […]
