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 ...

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 ...

Last June, the sale of an unassuming credit union building was viewed as something that will have a “lasting positive impact” on the Africatown community. Seven months after the sale was announced, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The 5k Africatown Bridge Challenge is this weekend. The Challenge is a certified 5k run/walk course that offers a view of historic Africatown, the Mobile River, Port of Mobile, ...

The Mobile History Museum is filled with historical displays and interesting information on the history of Mobile and th ...

Africatown is planning to become a tourism spot in 2022, with the opening of a new “Heritage House” museum and the starting up of land and water tours with storytellers who will describe the unique ...

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 ...

Reporting from AFRICATOWN, Ala. — For miles, north of downtown Mobile, industrial compounds march along the Mobile River. Enormous paper mills, oil companies, shipyards stand shoulder to shoulder. But ...

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. (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 ...