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 ...

More recently, it describes a region in economic decline. "The Alabama Black Belt as a region of insurgent African American aspirations makes a strong claim to take over the meaning of the term ...

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 ...

Students from counties in the Black Belt region of the state perform markedly worse on math and science than the state average. (TNS) — Students in Alabama’s Black Belt — one of the poorest ...

The Black Belt has yet to recover from the end of the plantation economy -- antebellum mansions stand as relics of the wealth the region once celebrated. "When your whole city or your whole ...

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 ...

It’s no longer a matter of if, but when COVID-19 will hit the Black Belt region where a disproportionate number of residents live with chronic health conditions, experts fear. And as 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 ...

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).

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 ...