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 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 ...

Mobile is “in prime position to become the state’s leader in cultural tourism.” Now if that doesn’t get your attention, Mobile, I have no idea what will.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony. Attendees, many of them ...

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, ...

More than a decade ago, the Africatown Welcome Center was a deteriorating trailer overlooking a 149-year-old cemetery. It sat adjacent to the vandalized busts of Cudjoe Lewis, the famed survivor of ...

More than 160 years ago, a schooner carrying illegal human cargo sailed into Mobile Bay. It was a half-century after the importation of slaves had been outlawed in the U.S. Still, in the dark of night ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A taste of African culture was available to those attending the Africatown Heritage House’s inaugural Culture Fest, serving as a cultural celebration filled with spoken word, ...

MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Africatown Heritage House in Mobile has received even more national recognition. In a remarkable achievement, Africatown Heritage House has been ranked one of the top 10 best ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Two locations in Mobile are now recognized for their role in the Reconstruction Era, a period of U.S. history after the Civil War. The National Park Service recognizes more than ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - People gathered Saturday to honor the legacy of Africatown with the second annual Africatown Lantern Walk. The Lantern Walk is something that was a tradition at the Mobile ...