Rapier, like Figures, was elected from Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District. The state had already begun enacting voter suppression laws by the time Haralson left Congress in 1877. Those culminated in ...

Alabama has elected Democrat ... but encompasses more of Montgomery County as well as parts of Mobile County to include more minority voters and set the stage for the competitive primaries as a ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, on Tuesday won election to ...

Previous districts drawn by Alabama Republicans diluted Black residents’ voting power, a federal judge ruled last year.

The majority in the U.S. House hangs in balance. It was teetering this week between Republican control that would usher in a ...

Alabama’s District 2 race could prove to have a significant impact with the balance of power in the House with Democrat Shomari Figures victory Tuesday.

MOBILE, Ala. ( WALA) - Shomari Figures claimed victory Tuesday night, in the race for Alabama’s newly drawn second ...

When a new congress is seated in January, Democrat Shomari Figures of Mobile will be a new member of the House of ...

Escambia County (Ala.) followed the red wave across the nation in putting its support behind Donald Trump and every other ...

It came as no surprise when Escambia County voters sent Donald Trump to the White House in the presidential election on ...

Political newcomer Greg Dawkins has unseated incumbent Danny Benjamin as the new representative for District 2 of the ...

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