City officials began the process of revising Mobile’s zoning code several years before the hull of the Clotilda was discovered kickstarting a renewed focus on the Africatown community as a tourism ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile announced a date for its second Africatown Welcome Center design community meeting. It’s happening on Thursday, May 25 at 6:00 PM. This meeting, like the first ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile has chosen a team to lead the design and engineering work for the Africatown Welcome Center. The group includes firms and non-profit organizations that have ...

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

Technically, it was researcher Ben Raines who discovered the remains of the Clotilda at the depths of a river in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta in 2019. But as Kern Jackson relays it, the community of ...

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 ...

The Senior Bowl has called Mobile, Alabama, home for all but one of its 75 years of existence. It is the pre-draft season's largest and most celebrated college football all-star game, an annual affair ...

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 ...

The recent discovery of the remains of the last slave ship to the United States is bringing hope of revival to Africatown. It's a small community in Mobile, Ala., founded by African captives brought ...