State Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, will run for Congress in the newly redrawn 6th Congressional District, he announced Tuesday. Fields previously served in the U.S. House from 1993 to 1997, when Louisiana had two majority Black seats. The 4th Congressional District was later ruled an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and thrown out. Louisiana had just
ICYMI: Cleo Fields running for Congress in Louisiana’s new 6th District
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