Record number of black women are candidates in Alabama They're fueled by Democrat Doug Jones' stunning upset Senate win, the #MeToo movement, opposition to Trump and a desire to carry on Obama's ...

No black candidate in Alabama has ever been elected to the civil or criminal appellate bench, while only two black judges have been elected to the state Supreme Court. Alabama is approximately 26% ...

Black voters gain as Alabama gets a new 2024 U.S. House map Alabama's ... but a Black candidate would struggle. ... with the Black-preferred candidate winning 16 of the 17 previous elections, ...

Shomari Figures and Caroleene Dobson will face off for Alabama’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District. A primary run-off election determined the two candidates who will face off for Alabama ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Black candidates have been elected for the first time to two top law enforcement positions in Alabama's most populous county, with both advocating new approaches to the get ...

Today, two dozen Black major party candidates are battling for U.S. Senate, governor and other high office positions across the country. This is already a record, and, if successful, some of the ...

A three-judge court in Alabama’s Northern District has determined that the legislature’s 2023 congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act and cannot be used in future elections.

Alabama's congressional district map that was used for the 2022 elections, left, was found by the U.S. Supreme Court to likely violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting the influence of Black voters.

A record number of black women are running for office as Democrats in Alabama. In the aftermath of Alabama’s roller coaster Senate special election in December 2017, a national spotlight was ...

In Alabama — where Jones won by just 1.5 percentage points — any number of factors may be credited for his victory. The more than 20,000 write-in votes for other candidates might just as well ...

Patrick Braxton will officially become mayor of Newbern, Alabama once the court approves the settlement – the first Black person to hold the position in the town’s 166-year history.

One thing that outsiders seemed to get wrong: Black voters in Alabama knew full well who Republican candidate Roy Moore was, and knew about his Lost Cause-proclivities and racial dog-whistle act ...