The Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association launched their second annual Black Belt Road Trip Photo Contest, celebrating ...

The second annual Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association (ALBBAA) photo competition launched on Monday and will run ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...