The state’s most influential African-American leaders will be part of a meeting tonight at 7 p.m. about the future of black politics in Louisiana.
The forum, sponsored by the University’s African and African-American studies program, will be held in the E.R. “Bo” Campbell Auditorium.
Panel moderator Leonard Moore, director of LSU’s African and African-American studies program, said there is a lot of political apathy in the black community.
“We have betrayed the Civil Rights movement and destroyed the legacy of the Voting Rights Act of 1964,” Moore said.
State Sens. Donald Cravins, Paulette Irons, Charles Jones and Cleo Fields, along with state Reps. Karen Carter and Patrick Swilling will serve on the meeting’s panel.
Community leaders comprise the rest of the panel.
Moore said the panel will address voter registration and participation and how the African-American community can restart the political dialogue that existed before the Civil Rights movement.
“It’s a way to get us back to that tradition,” Moore said.