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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A run this weekend helps raise money for the people and projects in a historic Mobile community. The Africatown Bridge Challenge is happening this Saturday. You’ll find a lot 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 ...

Reporting from AFRICATOWN, Ala. — For miles, north of downtown Mobile, industrial compounds march along the Mobile River. Enormous paper mills, oil companies, shipyards stand shoulder to shoulder. But ...

In 2019 we began reporting on the discovery of the Clotilda - a sunken slave ship found in the bottom of an Alabama river. The Clotilda was the last ship known to have brought captured Africans to ...

Explore the back story of the Africatown Heritage House with descendants of town founders. APT's Randy Scott and Clotilda descendant Veda Robbins explore the back story of the Africatown Heritage ...

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 ...