Union Springs, a small city in the Alabama Black Belt, is best known as the “Bird Dog Field Trial Capital of the World” for its large hunting dog competitions held near former cotton fields.

The Alabama Legislature must approve a new congressional map by Friday, the deadline set by a federal court to submit new federal maps. The state has had a single majority-minority congressional ...

In Alabama's Rural Black Belt, An Uphill Climb For Bernie Sanders Even though Sanders is breaking through in many places, Democrats in Greensboro, Ala. say they feel a connection to Hillary Clinton.

Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones will have to get significant numbers of black voters to the polls in order to win, but the state’s voter suppression will make that a tough task.

That leaves us the Alabama Democratic Party. Which is a shaky vessel for political opposition. The party has almost no presence outside the major cities and the Black Belt, and its leadership ...

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Doug Jones takes questions from reporters at a fish fry campaign event at Ensley Park, November 18, 2017 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Columnist Kyle Whitmire writes that 29 of the state’s 67 counties will now lack a driver’s license office—and, depending on whether you define the “black belt” as constituting 18 or 24 ...

The Black Belt National Heritage Area Act was introduced into the House on May 13, 2021, by Democratic Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell, who represents numerous Black Belt counties.

Two factions of the Alabama Democratic Party faced off in an intense, nine-hour hearing held Friday by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Washington, D.C. One faction, led by Minority ...

The Alabama Democratic Party can’t afford to write off 2026 ... D-Thomasville, a 30-year veteran of the House, barely squeaked past a Republican opponent in his Black Belt district.