Federal judges will weigh a request to bring Alabama back under the preclearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act after ruling the state intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black ...

"Good Trouble Lives On" protests are scheduled to take place on the anniversary of the death of civil rights icon John Lewis.

We Alabamians are accustomed to being misjudged from time to time, whether because of our Civil Rights history or because we’re lumped in with Southern stereotypes. The reality of Alabama is far ...

Essay How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination. Illustration by Vartika Sharma Share full ...

The judges said that the map drawn by the Alabama Legislature in 2023 violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, just like the one previously drawn by the state.

Statue honoring prolific civil rights attorney Fred Gray outside of the Alabama Bar Association looks in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle) ...

As water management problems arise – and in some cases go unaddressed – in places such as Alabama, Michigan, and Mississippi, our columnist wondered, Is there a link between civil rights ...

A three-judge panel on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama had ruled twice against the state and did so again with its recent ruling.

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 ...

Black voters and civil rights organizations, who successfully challenged Alabama’s congressional map, are asking a three-judge panel to require any new congressional maps drawn by state ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside ...