A sign welcoming visitors to historic Africatown, a historic neighborhood just outside of downtown Mobile, Alabama. (Amy Walker/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY SA 4.0) Africatown was nominated for inclusion ...

AfricaTown holds great historical significance as one of the nation’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. It’s credited as being one of the first places where freed slaves from Africa settled in ...

Durkin and Deborah G. Plant spoke Friday morning at the Mobile Museum of Art, at a forum that was part of the 2026 Owambe ...

Technically, it was researcher Ben Raines who discovered the remains of the Clotilda at the depths of a river in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta in 2019. But as Kern Jackson relays it, the community of ...

MOBILE, Ala. (CN) — One idea takes the flood-prone property that was formerly the Josephine Allen public housing complex and deliberately inundates it, creating a freshwater basin where kids can learn ...

A campaign of new construction and historic renovation in Mobile’s Africatown community will receive a $2.5 million federal ...

The 2022 documentary “Descendant” tells the enormously compelling story of the families of captives from the last American slave ship, which anchored in Africatown, Alabama in 1860. Underscoring the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AFRICATOWN, AL,(WGNO) —At around 1860, the ...

The Clotilda is the last known slave ship to dock on U.S. shores. Harlem-based firm JEROME HAFERD (BRANDT : HAFERD) was awarded first prize in the Africatown International Design Idea Competition for ...

Former New York Mets all-star outfielder Cleon Jones is now 80, but he's proving you're never too old to make a difference. Jones caught the last out as the 1969 Miracle Mets won the World Series, ...

*A historic moment was marked, as the Pollee and Rose Allen School of Logistics and Trade concluded its inaugural semester in celebration of National Logistics Day, symbolizing not just the close of a ...