Lawmakers say they are seeking to improve infrastructure and access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunities.

On a 200-acre plot in Hale County, the sun beats down on the rich, black soil. Black Angus cattle roam, birds fly overhead and miles of nature trails wind through the land. Chris Joe and his ...

BLACK BELT BIRDING FESTIVAL will take place on Aug. 1, 2 and 3. Highlighting the birds, history, and heritage of Alabama’s Black Belt region, the festival brings together the joy of birding with the ...

Currently, at least 30,000 homes have failing systems in the Black Belt region. After years of dealing with unsanitary wastewater conditions in and outside of their homes, some residents in the ...

It's terrible," she says. This is Lowndes County, in the heart of what's known as the Black Belt - a rural, agricultural region in west Alabama named for its rich Black soil, and which also has a ...

Black Belt The Black Belt is a region of the Southern US with a history of slave plantation agriculture and a high African-American population. The term originally referred to a specific stretch ...

The medical debt nonprofit RIP Medical Debt will be abolishing medical debt for thousands in Alabama’s Black Belt region thanks to a partnership made possible by former Gov. Don Siegelman (D).

This rich, dark soil gave the Black Belt—an area that stretches from east-central Mississippi through central Alabama and into western Georgia--its name and later made the region a prime area ...

From ancient seas to fertile soils, evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton explores the remarkable journey that transformed the Cretaceous coastline into the fertile “Black Belt” region ...

Yet, in a region with a high water table and intense ... coli and fecal coliform throughout the Black Belt, in wells and in public waters. A United Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, visiting ...