Alabama's new, court-picked map adds a second congressional district where Black voters' preferred candidate is projected to win a majority of the time.

The map, dubbed the “Community of Interest” map, has one majority Black voting age population at 51.55% in the 7th congressional district, taking in Birmingham and most of the western Black ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.

A federal court has picked Alabama’s new congressional map, which will likely result in an additional Black — and Democratic — member in the delegation.

Alabama's congressional district map that was used for the 2022 elections, left, was found by the U.S. Supreme Court to likely violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting the influence of Black voters.

The new congressional map Alabama Republicans proposed on Monday contains only one majority-Black district. Getty / Alabama Legislature UPDATE (July 18, 2023, 3:50 p.m.): ...

A panel of three federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest version of its congressional map Tuesday, saying the state’s Republican-led legislature did not follow a court order backed by the U.S ...

A federal court struck down Alabama’s congressional map on Tuesday, after GOP state lawmakers refused the court’s mandate to draw a second majority-Black district.

A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., July 18, 2023.

Alabama's congressional map will be redrawn again. A panel of federal judges has, for the second time, struck down a map from Republican state lawmakers. At issue is the political power of Black ...

Alabama’s congressional map dilutes the power of Black voters, voting rights advocates told the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a filing that accuses the state of “unabashedly” defying an ...