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Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black districts or “something quite close to it.”

Alabama’s Republican-led state legislature has officially gone rogue. After much anticipation, Alabama released a proposal for its congressional map that appears to directly violate a recent Supreme Court voting rights decision.

In a state where more than one in four residents is Black, the lower court panel had ruled in 2022 The post Alabama GOP ignores SCOTUS, refuses 2nd Black majority district appeared first on TheGrio.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed a major victory to Black voters who challenged a Republican-drawn electoral map in Alabama, finding the state violated a landmark law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting and paving the way for a second congressional district with a Black majority or close to it. The 5-4 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts affirmed a lower court's decision that the map diluted the voting power of Black Alabamians, running afoul...

Republican lawmakers in Missouri are pushing for a state takeover of the St. Louis police department. Republican officials in Mississippi and elsewhere also have acted this year to take control over some functions in Democratic-led cities and Black-majority cities such as Jackson, Mississippi where the NAACP have launched a lawsuit

Civil War reenactor Joseph McGill Jr. embarked on a one-year plan in 2010 to sleep in slave cabins in South Carolina. Twelve years later, McGill’s travels across the United States are chronicled in Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery.

Bello says he had no choice except to veto the law, because in his view it packs minority voters into districts with White voters, diluting the Black vote rather than expanding minority representation.

Supreme Court opens a historic term with challenges to past liberal rulings on race, affirmative action, voting rights -- and its first Black female justice.

California’s primary today provides an early political stress test for House incumbents running under significantly redrawn congressional lines.

The Kirk is being urged to act upon its historical links to slavery and the wealth derived from human suffering in the plantations that funded churches and supported parishes across the country.