An Alabama Port Authority railroad project that generated concern in Mobile’s Africatown community has passed a review by the ...

In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to ... would go on to found Africatown ...

I’m finding out people in my community knew things, but they were probably trying to protect me, because talking about Clotilda was a crime [for many years]. Since they found the ship ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...

African American church leaders are speaking out over budget cuts being proposed by the Trump White House. The Smithsonian ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A plaque unveiling on Saturday recognized Lewis Quarters, 7 acres purchased by survivors of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S. During a ceremony ...