In the map chosen Thursday, the state’s 2nd Congressional District has a Black voting-age population of 48.7 percent, and its 7th District maintains its Black majority with a Black voting-age ...

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.

Back to the cartography board . The legal tug-of-war over Alabama's congressional map started shortly after the state redrew its districts in 2021.

But when Alabama produced its new map in July, it came under immediate legal challenge because the state, once again, declined to create a second majority-Black district. State legislators instead ...

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 ...

Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black ...

The Republican-led House and Senate in Alabama approved dueling congressional maps Wednesday that would increase the percentage of Black voters in the state’s 2nd District — but not by enough ...

Federal judges for a U.S. District Court in Alabama ruled against state lawmakers and rejected their congressional district that only included one Black-majority district.

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the drawing of a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters to proceed. The new districts also could help Democrats trying to ...