Today, Alabama’s population is approximately 64% white and 27% Black, and voter suppression, as it did shortly after the last of the three men, Rep. Jeremiah Haralson, left office in 1877 ...

Videos showing a group of white men attacking a Black dock worker in Alabama have gone viral on social media. The incident took place after a pontoon boat blocked an area where a riverboat was ...

Federal courts redrew Alabama’s District 2 last year after the Legislature's Republican supermajority refused to create a second Black-majority district. Analysts predict a win for the Black ...

Newbern, Alabama (CNN) — Patrick Braxton accomplished something no Black man in his Alabama town had done in its 166-year history: he became mayor. He told CNN he ran for office in 2020 to serve ...

The congressional plan Alabama drew after the 2020 census made six out of the seven districts majority White, even though 27% of the state’s population is Black.

Newberrn, Alabama's first Black Mayor says white former city officials orchestrated a relentless campaign to keep him from serving. For the last three years, Braxton says he has been fighting to ...

NEWBERN, Ala. (AP) — The first Black mayor of a small Alabama town, who said white city officials blocked him from taking office, will return to the role under the terms of a proposed settlement ...

Patrick Braxton accomplished something no Black man in his Alabama town had done in its 166-year history: he became mayor. He told CNN he ran for office in 2020 to serve the fewer than 300 ...