As the region grapples with poor sanitation, groups like the Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Program are taking it upon ...

Choctaw County, in Alabama’s Black Belt region, had the highest level of carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the state in 2023, at 283.8 metric tons of carbon dioxide (MtCO2) per person ...

It would treat Black Belt residents who had ... meeting with state legislators and with Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey, who grew up in neighboring Wilcox County. The state lawmakers who ...

Watch a replay of the Gulf States Newsroom’s virtual listening session discussing its coverage of Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District during the 2024 election.

Dallas County, a mostly rural area in Alabama's "Black Belt," had seen nineteen lynchings between 1882 and 1913. Violence in the region declined during the first half of the century, but there ...

Journal The inaugural Historical Marion 2 Selma Bicycle Ride will commemorate the 60th anniversary of one of the most important and notorious moments in Civil Rights history. The cycling event, set ...