This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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

A look inside the historic southern Alabama neighborhood where descendants of America’s last slave ship still reside today Tucked along an unassuming stretch of land three miles north of downtown ...

Dilapidated houses in Africatown in need of improvement. (Courtesy M.O.V.E. Mobile-Gulf Coast CDC) Today, Africatown (also known as Africatown USA or Plateau) has been incorporated into the Mobile ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Modular building units are arriving in Africatown for what will be part of the Africatown Heritage House, a $1.3 million project that will eventually house a History Museum of ...

Boasting his intention to dodge the U.S. Navy’s enforcement of the hated ban, Meaher partners with William Foster, a shipwright who captains his beautifully crafted schooner, the Clotilda. The pair ...

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, Ala. (WKRG) — Several organizations in Africatown took part in bringing back the annual Lantern Walk, as the walk was once a part of Africatown’s history. The last Lantern Walk was held in ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – All Things Africatown is preparing to kick off Black History Month with a free festival the first weekend of February. The festivities begin with an Author’s Forum on Friday, ...

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

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The Africatown Redevelopment Corporation’s mission to preserve the town’s history, revitalize housing, and attract and develop commerce is coming along as a new home was ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Residents of Africatown had the opportunity to preserve history at a photo scan event. The event was hosted by UCLA Ph.D. candidate Madison Aubey in partnership with All Things ...