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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. convened congressional colleagues and leaders outside of the U.S. Capitol to call for a fair redistricting process in Louisiana that protects Black voters and creates a second majority-minority congressional district.
NEW ORLEANS, L.A. – Every spring the House of Representatives sponsors a visual art competition for high school students across the nation to encourage and recognize artistic talent nationwide and in each congressional district.
NEW ORLEANS, L.A. -- Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter Sr. released the following statement in response to the ruling by the U.S. Fifth Circuit vacating the administrative stay it issued last week after the Middle District Court ruled the maps of Louisiana’s congressional districts violated the Voting Rights Act.
While the country’s major television networks broadcast images Thursday night of Americans violently breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, Louisiana’s Republican members of Congress said their Democratic colleagues ought to instead be giving prime-time coverage to a litany of other problems facing the nation.
(TNS) - Parts of Southern University's campus in Baton Rouge are slowly eroding into the Mississippi River, but state and federal leaders said Wednesday they have a plan to stop it.
The collapsing land has been an issue for years, but the university has recently raised as the ridge moves closer to some buildings. The student health center, for example, is not far away from a steep embankment.