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.

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 ...

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.

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.

The name “Black Belt” originally referred to the region’s dark, clay soil, before eventually coming to signify its high population of African Americans as well.Today, the region’s roughly ...

It’s time to fill up your gas tank for an Alabama adventure that’s sure to put a smile on your face and top off your stomach with some good eating.

It’s no longer a matter of if, but when COVID-19 will hit the Black Belt region where a disproportionate number of residents live with chronic health conditions, experts fear.

MARION, Ala. (AP) - Here, in what's left of the Old South's plantation region, the descendants of slaves who picked cotton and worked the dark soil are praying differently since Donald Trump moved ...

Black Farmers' Network: Part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant project, Black Farmers' Network documents the stories of Black Belt Region farmers making an entrepreneurial change ...

The Alabama Department of Public Health states that at least one in five residents in 19 counties has been vaccinated against COVID-19.