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Huntsville City Schools Superintendent Dr. Clarence Sutton gave an optimistic outlook during Council Member Jennie Robinson District 3 Town Hall meeting Monday night, saying that the new school ...
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.
The new district map is a remedy to Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power, and may lead to the election of two Black representatives for the first time in the state’s history.
The Supreme Court ordered Alabama lawmakers to draw a map that included two majority-Black districts or “something quite close,” but the legislature approved a new map with one district with ...
The new congressional map split Mobile County into two districts: District 1 and District 2. This has left a lot of Mobilians questioning what district they’ll be in now and who will represent ...
When completed, the sculpture will soar an impressive 21 feet tall and 25 feet wide, and will connect the Medical District with Arts Huntsville’s popular downtown Public Art Trail.
The question over which map would be used and its political ramifications has long been a source of contention and litigation that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A panel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create ...
Finding it “substantially likely” that the 2023 map violates the Voting Rights Act because it failed to create an additional majority-Black district or “something close to it,” the lower court ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — It’s election season in the Rocket City and three people are vying for the District 1 City Council seat: Incumbent Devyn Keith, Michelle Watkins and Reggie McKenzie.
The legal fight continues over Alabama's congressional map. A federal court is set to check if a new map approved by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature weakens the power of Black voters.