Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

The Struggle for Black Electoral Power in Louisiana
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
08 May 2026
🖨️ Print Article

C.C. Campbell Rock is a New Orleans-based journalist. She recently wrote Louisiana v Callais: They Stole Black Power Again" for the site Black Source Media. She discusses the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act and provides a history of the struggle for Black electoral power in Louisiana. 

Louisiana v Callais
voting rights
gerrymander
Louisiana
Black Electoral Politics
U.S. Elections
Louisiana
SCOTUS

Related Podcasts

BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Report July 31, 2026
31 July 2026
In this week’s segment, we talk to Kshama Sawant, a socialist congressional candidate in Washington state, but we begin with a discussion of the Tr
BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio May 8, 2026
08 May 2026
In this week’s segment, we discuss a military attack carried out by Western-backed insurgents against the African nation Mali and the imperialist a
ACLU
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Louisiana v. Callais and the Black Vote
08 May 2026
The Supreme Court ruling in the case Louisiana v.

More Stories


  • By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled
    Paul Buchheit
    By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled
    09 Jan 2019
    If measured by 1960s yardsticks, today’s US poverty rates are three times higher than officially recognized.
  • Angela Davis “Stunned” at Award Revocation, But Still Coming to Birmingham
    Roy S. Johnson
    Angela Davis “Stunned” at Award Revocation, But Still Coming to Birmingham
    09 Jan 2019
    Davis joins a long list of scholars and activists who have been censored in efforts to silence debate on Israeli apartheid.
  • BAR Abolition Spotlight: "Mia Mingus”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
    BAR Abolition Spotlight: "Mia Mingus”
    09 Jan 2019
    Prison abolition and reform are compatible “when reform is done in service of abolition." “State violence and intimate violence are deeply connected.”
  • BAR Book Forum: Eunsong Kim’s “gospel of regicide”and Juno Salazar Parreñas’ “Decolonizing Extinction”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Eunsong Kim’s “gospel of regicide”and Juno Salazar Parreñas’ “Decolonizing Extinction”
    09 Jan 2019
    Our authors contemplate the “antiblack horizon” in Asian American imaginaries, and orangutans’ relationship to colonialism and white supremacy.
  • How Britain Stole $45 Trillion From India And Lied About It
    Jason Hickelby
    How Britain Stole $45 Trillion From India And Lied About It
    09 Jan 2019
    British colonizers turned a scam for defrauding peasants into a parasitical relationship that made England rich and impoverished a subcontinent.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us