With respect to this article from the Washington Post, I find this fear of depressed black turnout to be greatly exaggerated.
Jones is well known for his prosecutorial career, specifically when it came to prosecuting several church bombers. Jones has hammered this home, and he's done an excellent job of articulating his public service to voters. On top of that, Jones is flush with cash and will no doubt invest heavily in GOTV (souls to the polls especially).
There's absolutely no reason to worry about turnout at this point. This is a high profile senate race that's garnered plenty of outside attention. I doubt we'll see depressed black and minority turnout.
That reminds me of when they started panicking over black turnout after the results of the 2016
election. It seems like they just automatically assumed that because Obama is no longer president (or just has a smaller leadership role among the Democratic Party), black voters simply won't turn out well in off-year elections. There's an issue with making such statement. In 2009, black voters were 16% of the electorate (gubernatorial election, but by this year it hopped by about 7-8 points. However, I do wish there was some way in which we could accurately tell motivation to vote across the country and all of what I just listed above has nothing to do with Alabama.
One article that I could find about the possible engagement is
this.
Turnout looks to be very uncertain now and I'm also slightly annoyed by the polling drought lately as well.
