Africatown efforts to tell the story of America’s last slave ship could eventually draw more tourists than Montgomery has been attracting since the Equal Justice Initiative opened a lynching memorial ...

When Alabama pursued widening Mobile’s Bay Bridge Road in 1993, the Africatown community feared the project would mean losing property, businesses, and a historic chimney. For the most part, those ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Africatown's resurrection into a potential world-class tourism destination is well-known by now as planning forges ahead for walking and water tours, a museum and welcome center, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore the back story of the Africatown Heritage House with descendants of town founders. APT's Randy Scott and Clotilda descendant Veda Robbins explore the back story of the Africatown Heritage ...

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 ...

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, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Africatown Heritage House, a museum in Mobile with an exhibition from the community first founded by the slaves brought to Alabama on the last known slave ship, the Clotilda, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile and the Mobile County Commission are partnering to open a food bank and community space in Africatown after a sales transaction from the Meaher family to the ...

The Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals honored the Africatown Connections Blueway planning team with a Project Excellence Award. Members of the team from MSU’s Department of Landscape ...

In 1860, the schooner Clotilda sneaked through the waters off Mobile, Ala., and up into rivers nearby. After its crew and cargo departed, the ship was set on fire and burned, not to be seen for nearly ...