The ship is “too broken” and “too decayed” to be evacuated, archaeologists say. The task force headed by the Alabama Historical Commission determined that the Clotilda, the last ship known to ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The day has finally come for the official unveiling of a local museum highlighting an important part of African American history. Friday was a celebration for the city of Mobile.

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Thursday kicked off the first day of the annual Landing Event and Ancestor Festival in Mobile, also known as LEAF. LEAF will feature a line-up of events over the next four days ...

In Margaret Brown’s documentary “Descendant,” a man named Anderson Flen walks through the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, and wonders aloud about the people who walked there before him, people who had ...

The Clotilda has been at the bottom of the Mobile River since 1860, when the captain burned and sank the vessel that was used illegally to bring enslaved individuals ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — National Geographic is releasing a new documentary special focusing on the last known slave ship, the Clotilda. The new documentary “Clotida: Last American Slave Ship” will shed ...

In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...

FILE - Crew members leave Mobile, Ala., on their way to the wreck of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, on May 2, 2020. Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to ...

On Saturday, the Africatown Heritage House in Mobile, Alabama, will open an exhibit that chronicles the journey and aftermath of the last known ship carrying enslaved people to America. “Clotilda: The ...

Efforts are underway for a meeting between both descendants of the survivors and the wealthy financier of the last known transatlantic slave voyage into the U.S. Representatives with the Clotilda ...

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, ...

MOBILE, Ala.MOBILE, Ala. — Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to America’s shores gathered over the weekend on the banks of an Alabama river to pay tribute to ...