Rep. Shomari Figures comes to Washington representing a district created by a court order to give Alabama's black voters more ...

The ruling means that Alabama will have to redraw its congressional map to include a second majority-black district. Although the state's voting-age population is about 27% black, the current ...

Threadgill, who leads the state’s largest school district, remains Alabama’s highest-paid local superintendent. He’s bringing in a total of $287,816 this year. Threadgill is followed by ...