with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorThanks for checking out today's top headlines. Ready to rollAfter 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 redistrictingA 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 housingBuilders broke ground on a 300-unit below-market-rate housing development by Plank Road and Ford Street. Business editor Timothy Boone has the details. Stop by later for more of our top stories. | 