Mardi Gras parades are ready to roll

with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

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Ready to roll

After a parade-less 2021 Carnival (thanks, COVID), a dozen celebratory processions are set to roll into the region through Fat Tuesday, March 1. Features editor Jan Bergeron has the rundown. 

School board redistricting

A national civil rights group says the East Baton Rouge public schools need to increase the chances of Black people getting elected to their district board or it could violate the federal Voting Rights Act. In a letter sent hours before local school leaders held a workshop to talk about remapping the boundaries, NAACP argued that "at least half" of parish school board districts should be majority-Black, as Charles Lussier reports. 

Affordable housing

Builders broke ground on a 300-unit below-market-rate housing development by Plank Road and Ford Street. Business editor Timothy Boone has the details. 

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