Black Belt The Black Belt is a region of the Southern US with a history of slave plantation agriculture and a high African-American population. The term originally referred to a specific stretch ...

The Black Belt region of Alabama was originally named for its dark, fertile topsoil, which gave rise to a prosperous antebellum economy. Now, the region is characterized by high poverty, low ...

As the region grapples with poor sanitation, groups like the Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Program are taking it upon ...

The challenge centers on two districts in the heart of the historic Black Belt region of northeastern North Carolina. The plaintiffs argued there is a strong enough Black population to create a ...

The tool has data from every census tract in the country. Choctaw County, in Alabama’s Black Belt region, had the highest level of carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the state in 2023 ...