The Black Belt region has a place in the heart of Alabama's culture, history and public image. Here's everything you need to know about it.

"The Alabama Black Belt as a region of insurgent African American aspirations makes a strong claim to take over the meaning of the term from its older and other senses," said Tallos.

And the Black Belt is by far Alabama’s poorest region. The area’s poor performance on standardized testing makes it hard not only to get into college, nearly impossible to earn scholarships.

Policy action on Medicaid aside, Brewer said the high school specializing in health care will bring more people to the Black Belt, specifically Demopolis, at a time when the region needs a boost.

Volunteers load boxes of fruit and produce into vehicles at a site where free food was distributed to residents of Alabama's Black Belt region in Selma, Ala., on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Relief ...

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 largely Black population.

Some Alabama residents say state isn't fixing wastewater lines, advocacy groups allege racial bias. Currently, at least 30,000 homes have failing systems in the Black Belt region.

The 'Black Belt' region in the Southern United States is significant historically, geologically, and socio-politically. Known for its fertile black soil and plantation economy, it is also symbolic ...

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough.

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 ...