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Rep. Justin J. Pearson, D-Memphis, center, marches with protesters before a special session of the state legislature to redraw U.S. Congressional voting maps, in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Southern Republicans press ahead with election-year redistricting of US House despite protests

May 6, 2026 at 3:50 p.m.

An election year redistricting movement has spread to South Carolina as Republicans attempt to redraw majority-Black congressional districts that have suddenly become susceptible because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling...

FILE – President Lyndon B. Johnson holds the signed document of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as he chats with Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill., in the President’s Room in Washington, Aug. 6, 1965. Signatures that appear on the document are Johnson, left bottom; House Speaker John McCormack, upper, standing at right; and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, lower, standing second from left. Standing at far left is Sen. Mike Mansfield. (AP Photo)

Supreme Court hollows out a landmark law that had protected minority voting rights for 6 decades

April 30, 2026 at 6:19 a.m.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court knocked out a major pillar of the Voting Rights Act that had protected against racial discrimination in voting and representation.

FILE – State troopers hit protesters with billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, March 7, 1965. (AP Photo/File)

On 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, worries about the future of voting rights and calls to action

March 8, 2026 at 5:51 p.m.

Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about the future...

FILE – Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, Commander U.S. Space Command, left, and Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, right, hold the flag as President Donald Trump gestures, during the presentation of the Space Force Flag in the Oval Office of the White House, May 15, 2020, in Washington. Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett stands far left. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

President Donald Trump announces that Space Command is moving from Colorado to Alabama

September 2, 2025 at 3:12 p.m.

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.

FILE – An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965. (AP Photo, File)

‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future

March 9, 2025 at 9:53 a.m.

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights...

This image provided by WBMA shows bystanders near the scene of a shooting in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Bill Castle/WBMA via AP)

Birmingham, Alabama, leaders plead for information on mass shooting and announce reward money

September 23, 2024 at 3:28 p.m.

Authorities have reported no arrests after a weekend mass shooting killed four people and left 17 others injured in what police described as a targeted “hit” by multiple shooters who...

This image provided by WBMA shows police and emergency vehicles in the entertainment district after a shooting in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Bill Castle/WBMA via AP)

Mass shooting kills 4, wounds many in Birmingham, Alabama nightlife district

September 22, 2024 at 1:45 p.m.

A mass shooting killed four people and wounded 18 others in a popular nightlife area in Birmingham, Alabama, with many of the victims caught in the crossfire.

People walk along a windy Hollywood Beach as Tropical Storm Debby moves through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024 in Hollywood, Fla. (WPLG via AP)

Tropical Storm Debby moving through Gulf toward Florida with hurricane warnings

August 4, 2024 at 5:32 p.m.

A tropical depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Debby north of Cuba on Saturday and was newly predicted to become a hurricane as it moves through the Gulf of Mexico on...

FILE – United Auto Workers union supporters attend a rally, Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Birmingham, Ala. The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South when a vote ends Friday, May 17, at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

After decisive loss at Alabama Mercedes plants, United Auto Workers union vows to return and win

May 18, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.

President Shawn Fain said the UAW will return to Mercedes and will press on with efforts to organize about 150,000 workers at more than a dozen auto factories across the...

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