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  SHARED FOR INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN TACTICS BEING EMPLOYED ACROSS THE NATION TO ENSURE RACIAL GERRYMANDERING AND TO CONTINUE TO DISENFRANCHISE BLACK VOTERS!  You may have heard me say, "I would be the first Black man elected statewide from Louisiana."   But this race is deeper than the color of my skin.  It’s about whether Louisiana will finally send someone to DC  who will represent the people whose ancestors were forced to build Louisiana.  When I say that I would be the first Black man to represent Louisiana state-wide, what I really mean is   I would be the first person to represent people whose ancestors were sharecroppers, like my grandparents. It means I would be the first person to   represent people whose ancestors were kidnapped and enslaved for centuries on this soil. It means that I would be the first person to represent people who had to   fight for their right to vote, sit at the same lunch counter, and ...

  LOUISIANA: RACISM REARS ITS UGLY HEAD! SHARED FOR EDUCATION AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE JIM CROW REVIVAL! On Friday morning over 600 hundred Louisianans showed up to the Louisiana state capitol to protest and speak out against a new Congressional map proposed by the Louisiana GOP that will  erase Louisiana's two black majority districts  and establish   all white districts . During the hearing on redistricting, GOP State Senator Jay Morris yelled  "Shut up, boy"  to my Executive Director Dadrius Lanus, a Black man, who, in Sen. Morris’s words was “commenting and talking” too loudly for him to concentrate. Sir, I am a 70 year old Black man and we know what it means to be called “ Boy .” Senator Morris says we misheard. That the audio proves it. That he said “you all need to shut up” to the Black constituents behind him outraged that their votes won't be counted. Senator Morris, an elected member of our legislature, thinks if he had yelled “you all need to s...

  SHARED FOR INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ABOUT LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS  THAT EXPEND MORE ENERGY TO THWART DEMOCRACY THAN TO UPLIFT AND  IMPROVE LOUISIANA!  THIS IS WARPED REPUBLICAN GOVERNANCE.  CAN WE WORK TOGETHER TO CHANGE IT? LOUISIANA RANKS 50TH  Rankings Scorecard Crime & Corrections #50 Economy #50 Education #46 Fiscal Stability #46 Health Care #44 Infrastructure #48 Natural Environment #49 Opportunity #46 US NEWS  Calvin Duncan spent 28 years in a Louisiana prison for a crime he did not commit.  28 years.  He didn't break. He studied law from behind bars. He fought for other incarcerated people to access court records. He won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling ending non-unanimous jury convictions. And in 2021, a judge finally did what should have been done decades earlier: threw out his conviction entirely. Then Calvin Duncan did something remarkable.  He ran for office.  He went back to the very criminal court system that sw...