Parties at the polls. Voter empowerment hubs. Early voting Halloween block parties. The past few weeks have been jam-packed with efforts to mobilize Black voters, getting them to the polls in the hopes that they can overcome attempts to erode their voting power. Already, these efforts seem to be paying off. Voter turnout has reached […]
Shomari Figures
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His Father Bankrupted the Klan. Now He’s Going to Congress to Continue the Fight.
It’s the start of a new political era in Alabama. In November, Shomari Figures, a Democrat, won his race against his Republican rival Caroleene Dobson to represent Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, which had recently been redrawn to be majority Black after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2023 that the previous map likely violated the […]
