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 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 ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) -There’s been a lot of talk over the last few years about how to revitalize Africatown. Renee Kemp-Rotan says she was called by M.O.V.E. Gulf Coast Community Development to bring ...

Dilapidated houses in Africatown in need of improvement. (Courtesy M.O.V.E. Mobile-Gulf Coast CDC) Today, Africatown (also known as Africatown USA or Plateau) has been incorporated into the Mobile ...

According to Variety: The film follows members of Africatown, a small community in Alabama, as they share their personal stories and community history as descendants of the Clotilda, the last known ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Africatown Heritage House was named a nominee in the USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards for Best New Museum. The home was nominated by journalists who have visited ...

Mobile’s Africatown Heritage House is one of the 10 best new museums to visit in the United States, according to voters in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice awards. In late November, the Heritage ...

Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Keys to the past and the ...

Africatown, also known as AfricaTown USA and Plateau, is a historic community located three miles (5 km) north of downtown Mobile, Alabama. It was formed by a group of 32 West Africans, who in ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship ...