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News; Alabama schools, maps, and agencies may soon be required by law to use ‘Gulf of America’ Published: ; Feb. 13, 2025, 8:08 a.m.

The Alabama House of Representatives moved to endorse President Donald Trump’s name change for the Gulf of Mexico, passing a bill called the Gulf of America Act. The bill says that beginning Oct ...

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 has to come up with a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that its current districts likely diluted the voting power of Black residents.

A panel of federal judges will soon decide whether Alabama Republicans complied with a court mandate to create a map that gives Black voters more power. By Emily Cochrane Reporting from Birmingham ...