This made her the first Somali-American Muslim legislator in the U.S. Ilhan’s experience in elected office makes her well qualified to represent the larger 5th Congressional District. She has ...

Alabama's congressional map is at stake in a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state will keep the new court-created district that led to the election of a second Black representative.

(AP) — Alabama’s congressional map ... District before Rep. Shomari Figures won election in November, giving Alabama two Black representatives in its delegation for the first time in history.