Alabama, since 1992, has only had one majority Black congressional district since Reconstruction and only three Black members of Congress have been elected from the state, all from Alabama’s 7th ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Legislature ended its special session Friday with a new proposed map for the State’s congressional districts.The special session was needed after the U.S ...

The Alabama House of Representatives has approved a new congressional district map that the sponsor said complies with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling by adding a second district where Black voters ...

Black voters gain as Alabama gets a new 2024 U.S. House map Alabama's new, court-picked map adds a second congressional district where Black voters' preferred candidate is projected to win a ...

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 ...

A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 14 for a hearing to consider new congressional districts. Federal judges had ruled that the state’s 2022 ...

The court’s decision to pick a map that creates a district in a southeastern swath of Alabama with a 48.7% Black voting-age population also concludes this phase of a legal saga that saw the US ...

Alabama is under a federal court order to draw a new congressional map with two districts where Black voters have a chance to elect their preferred candidate. But its GOP-led legislature refused.

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.

Lawmakers in Alabama convened Monday to draw a new congressional map, following a Supreme Court ruling that determined the state's current districts likely violated the Voting Rights Act.

The state has seven districts, and its voting population is about 27 percent Black. ... Supreme Court won’t let Alabama use disputed House map for 2024. Updated September 26, 2023.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges will weigh a request to bring Alabama back under the preclearance requirement of the ...