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Rep. Shomari Figures, (D-Alabama) used his election night victory speech to recognize his win's emergence from the long shadow of Alabama's racist history and his family's enduring legacy of anti-racism. His father, the late Michael Figures, was elected one of just three Black Alabama state senators in 1978. Thomas Figures, his uncle, was the first Black person to serve as assistant district attorney and assistant U.S. attorney in Alabama's Mobile County. But the two Figures brothers are most...
