Rep. Shomari Figures comes to Washington representing a district created by a court order to give Alabama's black voters more ...

Observing a joyous children’s holiday parade in the Louisiana parish she calls home, Clara LaFleur said that she isn’t ...

No Black Alabamian has ever served in the U.S. Senate. And only four Black lawmakers have been elected to represent the state ...

The 2024 election and a court-ordered redistricting led to this result: next year, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together, for the first time in history. Shomari Figures, ...

See the election map below for how each state voted. Democrat Shomari Figures won in a key U.S. House race for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, defeating Republican Caroleene Dobson in the ...

The U.S. District Court ruled for the state that year, but the U.S. Supreme Court vacated ... Pryor wrote that the Legislature “faced a difficult task” when it redistricted Alabama map in 2012. “The ...

Plaintiffs say the Jefferson County commission’s current five-district map illegally packs Black ... Plaintiffs in the case include the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, Metro-Birmingham ...

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez called on the US Supreme Court today to reaffirm that states should be given the first ...

Republican-drawn maps kept them in power in Georgia The voters live near the border between the two districts, often just across the street from the boundary. Under state law, a judge can order a ...

Attorney General Lopez is leading a coalition to back Louisiana on creating a second majority-Black congressional district.