Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district. A three ...

Following the 2020 census, Alabama made six of its seven districts majority white, despite 27 percent of the state’s population being Black. Though the Supreme Court allowed the map to be used ...

The court-ordered map, used in the 2024 elections, resulted in Alabama electing two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in history -- U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell and Shomari Figures ...

The courts then took control, eventually adopting a map where the Black-preferred candidate was forecast to win 16 of 17 elections. Shawn J. Donahue, an elections and redistricting expert and ...

A federal court ruled on Thursday that Alabama's Republican-led legislature intentionally discriminated against Black voters when it approved a new electoral map in 2023 that only had one majority ...

A court-appointed expert drew a temporary map for the 2024 election, and, for the first time in 150 years, Alabama elected two Black people to its congressional delegation that year.

A federal court says Alabama can't use a congressional map it found unconstitutional. The ruling comes in a voting rights case that resulted in the state getting a second Black member of Congress.

In Alabama, 30% of all Black students in 2004 attended majority white schools. That share decreased to 24% in 2024.