Alabama has elected Democrat Shomari Figures to Congress after courts forced the state to redraw district lines.

Previous districts drawn by Alabama Republicans diluted Black residents’ voting power, a federal judge ruled last year.

Shomari Figures will become the first Black person to hold the seat in Alabama after it was created after a Supreme Court ...

“Too many Black voters in Alabama have had their power diluted by unfair congressional ... tend to support Democrats — meant most Black voters were swamped in elections and did not have the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, on Tuesday won election to ...

Democrats were projected to win at least 208 House seats and Republicans 215 seats as of Friday. A party needs 218 seats in ...

Alabama is a consistently red state, with more than 60% of its voters casting ballots for the Republican Party’s candidate in every presidential election since 2004 ... which only had one ...

Results are in for the Alabama Congressional District 1 seat. Baldwin County, Escambia County, Ala., and some Mobile County residents voted in the General Election between ...

With the victory by Shomari Figures, Alabama will most likely have two Black representatives in Congress at the same time for ...

The two candidates for Alabama's Congressional District 2, which was redrawn by a federal court after a lengthy redistricting ...

The FBI and authorities in several states are investigating racist text messages sent to Black people nationwide this week ...