How Alabama discriminated against Black voters – visualized

The state’s new congressional map had only one majority-Black district, even though they make up 25% of the populationThe US supreme court on Thursday ruled that Alabama discriminated against Black voters when it drew its seven congressional districts last year, in a major victory for the embattled Voting Rights Act.The case arose when the Republican-controlled legislature, like states across the US, most recently completed the once-a-decade process of redrawing the boundaries of congressi