The Latest Breaking News from Alabama

Things were great when Kelly and Lewis were dancing on the pedestal a week ago.

Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin, where we track developments in election policy at the federal, state, and local levels. In this month’s issue:

There has been a subtle campaign to redefine racism by the intent and not the effects of discriminatory actions, even as gerrymandered maps diminish the power of Black voters

Welcome to the Monday, January 31, Brew. 

An Alabama judge is scheduled to consider arguments this week in a legal fight over a Confederate monument that has stood for more than a century in mostly black Tuskegee

Brookside, a former mining town with a median income of less than $40,000, generated more than $610,000 in fines in 2020

Baylor vs Alabama prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might - or might not - win on Saturday.

On Jan. 24, a unanimous three-judge federal court panel blocked Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) from holding the state’s 2022 congressional elections using the redistricting plan the state adopted on Nov. 4, 2021. On the same day, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed the state’s congressional redistricting plan.

But culture war political fights over race and sex education threaten their educational freedom.