The release this month of the Netflix documentary “Descendant” is shining a light on the Africatown community, its origins and struggles with environmental injustices. But it’s also spotlighting a ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The first of several community input meetings getting feedback for the future Africatown Welcome Center took place Thursday, April 6 at the Robert Hope Community Center. The ...

At the corner of 23rd and Spring in Seattle’s Central District, Africatown Plaza is now home to 126 families who previously would have been forced out of Seattle by the rising cost of living. While ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile is holding a public meeting in Africatown Thursday to “gather community input on the design of the future Africatown Welcome Center,” according to a Facebook ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile, Africatown Redevelopment Corporation and other organizations gathered Wednesday for the ...

Four years ago, the prospects of a $6 one-way toll across a future bridge and rebuilt Interstate 10 Bayway worried officials that motorists attempting to avoid tolls would detour through Mobile’s ...

U.S. Representative Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) came to the historic Africatown community to announce $2.5 million in 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 ...

*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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Folks braving the dreary weather-- to honor the legacy of Africatown. People came from all across the state for the Africatown Historical Lantern Walk to learn about the history ...