Michael Figures was the first Black person to serve as president pro tem of the Alabama State Senate. Shomari Figures is the first Black person elected to Congress from Mobile. Figures then credited his mother’s strength in raising a young family after ...

Control of Congress is at stake Tuesday, with ever-tight races for the House and Senate that will determine which party holds the majority and the power to boost or block a president's agenda, or if the White House confronts a divided Capitol Hill.

Democratic nominee Shomari Figures won election Tuesday in Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District in a race that could help shape the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Associated Press called the race at 10:55 p.

Republican Caroleene Dobson has conceded the race for Alabama's newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District. Autauga County residents voted down a ballot measure to increase property taxes that would have gone toward education funding in the county.

Shomari Figures won an Alabama congressional seat in a district that was redrawn last year after the Supreme Court weighed in on the key redistricting case. The nation’s highest court ordered the state to redraw its 2nd Congressional District,