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The Radio Television Digital News Association recognized the Alabama Public Radio news team with a national Edward R. Murrow Award. APR won “Best Series, Small Market Radio” for its eight month investigation into preserving slave cemeteries in Alabama.
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In its 5-4 Allen v. Milligan decision on June 8, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state of Alabama to redraw its congressional voting districts and consider race as it made up the new districts. The court had found that the state's political districts diluted the strength of Black voters by denying them the possibility of electing a second Black member to the state's congressional delegation. Alabama lawmakers declined to do so.
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A three judge federal panel is reportedly in the market for a new map maker. Published reports say the court’s current cartographer just withdrew from the case involving Alabama’s controversial Congressional map.
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Standing at an Alabama Statehouse microphone before lawmakers voted on new congressional districts, State House Member Chris England said that change in the Deep South state has often happened only through federal court order.
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Alabama lawmakers approved a new congressional map that would include a single majority-Black district in the state, a plan that could defy a Supreme Court order to give minority voters a greater voice in elections.
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Alabama lawmakers say they're trying to satisfy a landmark Supreme Court order to draw a new district giving a voice to Black voters, but with hours to go before a court-ordered deadline Friday, experts say Republican proposals fall far short of what the law requires.
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On the eve of a court deadline, Alabama lawmakers are still divided over the map designating new congressional districts and sparred over what constitutes an "opportunity" district that the state was ordered to create for Black voters.
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Alabama Republicans advanced new congressional lines in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Black lawmakers call it an insult to the court's order to give minority voters a greater voice
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Alabama Republicans advanced proposals to boost the number of Black voters in one of the state's seven congressional districts, but critics said the plans flout a court order to create a second majority-Black district or something close to it.
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Alabama Republicans have rejected proposals to create a second majority Black voting district. This opposition despite an order from the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional district boundaries. Lawmakers must adopt a new map by Friday.