MONTGOMERY, Alabama – In a year when every U.S. House seat is up for election, voting looks different in one southern state where a panel of federal judges was forced to choose a new map for November. That’s because the state legislature refused a federal order to draw a second majority Black district. It’s one of several states where redistricting could play a major role in determining which party controls the U.S. House.
At Heritage Barber Shop here in Montgomery, owner Vladimir “Boo man” Averett makes sure to sprinkle the city’s civil rights legacy between each cut.
“This whole United States changed on the backs of Montgomery is the history of making America who America was and what it is now,” he said. “Montgomery started it from Dr. King, Rosa Parks. And it’s time for us to continue that movement, to change it, to help assist in change in America.”
The Supreme Court stepped in to ensure that change would make voting more fair for Averett and all Alabama African Americans.
That’s because Montgomery sits in the state’s new congressional district, which intentionally includes a population of nearly 49% Black voters.
Plaintiff Khadidah Stone said, “I recognize that we come from
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