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 ...
Walter Moorer didn’t attend the weekend’s events for the grand opening of the Africatown Heritage House, or those memorializing the 163rd anniversary of the arrival of the slave ship Clotilda. He said ...
A portion of U.S. 90 on the Africatown Bridge is closed, according to a Facebook post from the Alabama Department of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
*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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
Africatown and McIntosh are two predominantly Black communities located in Alabama's "chemical corridor," a 60-mile stretch of land. Africatown and McIntosh, two predominantly Black communities ...