The Yellowhammer State's history, geography, economy (aerospace, automotive), and education. Explore its role in the Civil ...

Alabama's Republican-backed congressional map illegally dilutes Black residents' voting power and must be redrawn, a panel of three federal judges ruled on Tuesday, a decision that the state said ...

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.

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's congressional map has one district of seven with a majority of Black voters, even though African Americans make up 27% of the population.

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 ...