On Monday, Virginia asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by the state Supreme Court that ruled its redistricting effort was illegal.
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has essentially authorized the South to disenfranchise Black voters with Jim Crow maps.
Virginia’s ruling comes as several Red states have moved to redraw their maps in the wake of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act.
Restricting SNAP benefits in Alabama is not about health, but control. Structural inequities, not individual choices, drive poor outcomes.
Gov. Kay Ivey revised the sentence of 75-year-old Charles “Sonny” Burton to life without parole after Burton spent three decades on death row.
For many families, SNAP is what ensures there’s food on the table after rent, utilities, and child care are paid.
The home of Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch displayed Halloween decorations featuring skeletons dressed as ICE agents and migrants wearing sombreros.
On both the state and county levels, Alabama’s redistricting efforts have frequently faced legal pushback for racial gerrymandering.
Patrick Braxton has made history as the first Black mayor of Newbern.
An independent autopsy found that Jabari Peoples—who was killed by an Alabama police officer—was shot in the back.
Jabari Peoples was shot and killed by a police officer in the parking lot of a soccer field in Homewood, Alabama.
Brandon Moss, 18, launched his campaign for mayor of Fairfield, Alabama, only weeks after graduating from high school.