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, ...

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 ...

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’s Africatown community is poised to open a new museum this year, and other attractions are soon to follow with a Welcome Center and walking and water tours. The potential is due to the 2019 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AFRICATOWN, Ala. (WKRG) — Culture Fest 2025, hosted by the Africatown Heritage House, will be taking place in Mobile at the end of the month, according to the History Museum of Mobile. The one-day ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...