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The bill would federally protect and recognize the ability of student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness.
A bill that could have a major impact on college athletics has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures has joined a bipa ...
Experts and advocates warn that it could have dire consequences for Alabama’s tenuous rural healthcare situation.
Shomari Figures, the Black Democrat running in an Alabama congressional district redrawn last year by a court order, has won the seat over Republican Caroleene Dobson, NBC News projects. With 84% ...
Shomari Figures, Democratic candidate for Alabama’s 2nd congressional district, greets and takes a photo with Abbie Felder, of Montgomery, at the Frazer Church voting precinct, on Election Day ...
Former US Justice Department official Shomari Figures will win the Democratic primary runoff in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, CNN projects, a seat that was redrawn under a new map that ...
Reps. Terri Sewell and Shomari Figures are the first Black concurrent representatives in Alabama's history. Alabama is sending two Black representatives to the House of Representatives ...
U.S. Congressional candidate Shomari Figures will speak Thursday evening at the Democratic National Convention. Figures is the Democratic Party nominee for Alabama's newly drawn 2nd Congressional ...
Shomari Figures, an ex-Obama and Biden administration aide in the Justice Department, won his race for Alabama’s Second District seat on Nov. 5, becoming only the fourth Black representative ...
Rep. Shomari Figures comes to Washington representing a district created by a court order to give Alabama's black voters more just representation.