Kyle Gassett

Amid protests both outside and inside the statehouse from voting rights activists, Alabama's Republicans are proposing maps that weaken the power of two current black majority districts.

Alabama has seven representatives and recently elected two Democratic and black representatives following a Supreme Court decision that the state's previous maps diluted the power of black voters.

With last week's Louisiana case ruling and a seeming reversal from the Supreme Court, Alabama's GOP wants both new maps and primary election plans in place before the midterm elections.

Alabama's Attorney General has filed an emergency motion seeking to overturn a ruling that kept the state from changing maps until 2030.

For NPR News, I'm Kyle Gassett in Montgomery, Alabama.

Currently, two of the seven congressional representatives from Alabama are Black and are Democrats.

They were both elected in 2024 after a Supreme Court decision ruled Alabama had diluted the power of Black residents.

Now, with last week's decision, Republicans in the red state see an opportunity to draw maps that will favor them.

Kirk D. Carrington marched in Selma on Bloody Sunday in 1965 for changes in the law that became the Voting Rights Act.

Alabama joins other southern states that are moving to redraw maps, possibly in time for the upcoming midterm elections.

From PR News, I'm Kyle Gassett in Montgomery, Alabama.

She was 15 and, in her words, glued to the seat of the city bus she was riding when the driver told her to give it up for a white passenger.

Like Parks would be nine months later, Colvin was arrested.

But her case would not be the one used to challenge segregation on city buses.

In an interview with Radio Diaries, Colvin reflected on the decision made by Montgomery's civil rights leaders.

After her arrest, Claudette Colvin was placed on indefinite probation by the city.

Six decades later, in 2021, she successfully petitioned to have her record expunged.

For NPR News, I'm Kyle Gassett in Montgomery, Alabama.

Montgomery's police chief says the shooting late Saturday night was a result of two individuals firing at each other.

17-year-old Jeremiah Morse and 43-year-old Shalonda Williams were killed and 12 others were wounded.