Roads are economic lifelines. Alabama’s Black Belt struggles with access, report finds

About one in five workers who live in Alabama’s poorest and most rural region have to commute long distances to work outside ...
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New $17.5-million initiative aims to restore Alabama Black Belt prairie: ‘Good for land and people’

In 2018, Christopher Joe’s father urged him and his siblings to think of creative ways they could use their 200-acre farmland in Hale County, in Alabama’s Black Belt. The wheels started turning in Joe ...
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Alabama’s Black Belt - a region largely ignored: op-ed

In 2004, as he signed the Executive Order creating the 12-county Black Belt Action Commission, Governor Bob Riley said to the Tuscaloosa News, “The Black Belt has been studied and studied…some might ...