Shomari Figures Wins in District Where Alabama GOP Tried to Dilute Black Vote
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Democrat Shomari Figures won Alabama’s Second Congressional District election on Tuesday, defeating his Republican opponent Caroleene Dobson and flipping control of the district from Republicans to Democrats. Figures’s win is historic, as he is just the fourth Black person to win a congressional seat in Alabama’s history. And, for the first time ever, the state’s congressional delegation…