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 ...

A bill to possibly change how elections are handled in Alabama, racist texts sent to Black students across the country, and ...

Democrat Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, faces Republican Caroleene Dobson, an ...

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 ...

The once safe Republican seat was reshaped after a federal court ruled Alabama had illegally diluted the power of Black ...

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