Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The Africatown Redevelopment Corporation’s mission to preserve the town’s history, revitalize housing ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AfricaTown holds great historical significance as one of the nation’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. It’s credited as ...
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 ...
You proceed a certain distance through the Clotilda exhibition at the brand-new Africatown Heritage house thinking the curators have done a great job telling the whole story. And then you hit a stark, ...
A native of Mobile’s Crichton neighborhood, Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood has served the Mobile County area, the state of Alabama and the country through her work as an attorney. She ...
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — An amendment to the updated zoning laws in Mobile is on hold after citizens to Africatown raised concerns. City officials began the process of revising Mobile’s zoning code ...
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 ...
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Visitors from New Orleans are hopping off the Amtrak train and hopping on a bus to Africatown as part of the Africatown Freedom Tours. The bus waits for passengers as they come ...
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - There was a historic graduation ceremony in Africatown Wednesday night. A group of people started their own businesses and are now teaching others about the community’s history ...
One hundred and sixty-three years is a long time when you want to forget. Not so when you want to remember. When you want to remember, it’s just a moment ago. So it is for the descendants of Clotilda, ...
According to an Africatown Redevelopment Corporation news release, the organization recently completed six new single-family “forever homes.” The Africatown Redevelopment Corporation is hosting an ...
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