The map was not used in the last year’s elections, with Alabama instead using a court-mandated map that created a second congressional district with a substantial Black population.

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 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.

Federal court rules in favor of Black voters, civil rights groups A federal court permanently blocked Alabama’s 2023 congressional map, ruling it violated the Voting Rights Act. The legal battle ...

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.

TANNER, Ala. (WAFF) - In our backyard, Bridgeforth Farms is the largest black-owned farm in the state of Alabama. Just that fact alone is incredible when you consider history, but when you look at the ...

Rep.-elect Barry Moore (R-Ala.-1) Date of Birth / Sept. 26, 1966 Residence / Enterprise, Ala. Occupation / Business owner Education / A.S., Enterprise State Junior College; B.S., Auburn University ...

Residents in a majority-Black Alabama district that was redrawn last year after the high court weighed in have elected a Black Democrat to represent them. Shomari Figures in Chicago on Aug. 22.

If Democratic candidate Shomari Figures wins a congressional race in Alabama in the Nov. 5 U.S. election, the conservative-leaning Southern state would be poised for the first time to have two ...

The decision was a loss for Alabama Republicans, who were reluctant to create a Democratic-leaning district, and approved a map with a 39.9% Black voting age population in Congressional District 2.

Alabama’s white Republican leaders have denounced the court’s push to add a second Black district to the seven-member delegation in the state that is about 27% Black.