The Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering ...

A Montgomery attorney announces a 2026 bid for Alabama secretary of state, focusing on election security, business fee ...

Montgomery attorney Caroleene Dobson says she is running for secretary of state in 2026. Dobson said Thursday her priorities ...

Former candidates Jermaine Burrell and Lawrence Battiste backed Drummond, now the only Black candidate in a city with 47.5% ...

The Tuscaloosa seat came open when Cynthia Almond was appointed president of the Alabama Public Service Commission.

It resulted in the 2024 election of a Black Democrat — Rep. Shomari Figures. So Alabama now has two Black members of Congress, out of its seven seats in the U.S. House.

Federal judges ruled Alabama discriminated against Black residents in drawing congressional districts, and now the court must decide whether to require the state receive federal approval of its maps.

The panel appointed a special master who drew a map where two of Alabama’s seven U.S. House districts — the 2nd and the 7th – have majority-Black or near-majority Black populations.

Whether Alabama’s congressional districts violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because they discriminate against Black voters. We succeeded in winning a new map for 2024 elections which, for the ...

Alabama has elected 190 members to the U.S. House for over 205 years, but it achieved a first last week: Two Black residents from Alabama took the oath of office to serve in the U.S. House at the ...

Of those 5,604 voters, 4,513 of them are Black, an SPLC spokesperson said. The Alabama Reflector reported that the issue impacted about 4,600 Montgomery voters.