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 ...

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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.

Among the remaining claims in the case are that state lawmakers intentionally drew maps to deny Black voters the chance to elect their candidates of choice, Ross said. If the plaintiffs win next year, ...

Without nary a thought of the 21 college students, Black and white college students, who stepped off a bus from Nashville there almost 61 years ago and into a mob of hate. Students who only wanted ...

The congressional plan Alabama drew after the 2020 census made six out of the seven districts majority White, even though 27% of the state’s population is Black.

Separate litigation kept Alabama under DOJ preclearance through 2020. “The relentless efforts of some in Alabama to deny black state citizens the rights they deserve and force them to vote on a ...

Two majority Black cities in Alabama now have Black representation in Congress because of court-ordered redistricting. The progress comes as President Trump pulls back federal diversity initiatives.

Trump cut off the reporter and said, "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." He also said the map had been from three or four days before, when it had actually been issued six days earlier.

A federal court Thursday ruled that the Alabama Legislature intentionally discriminated against Black voters in approving a congressional district map in 2023 that would only have had one ...