A task force led by Alabama Historical Commission reported ... Aboard were 110 captives who, following the Civil War, settled in the Africatown community that is approximately six miles north ...

A new festival will celebrate the legacy and potential of the Africatown community this weekend, offering a four-day slate of free events. The inaugural Owambe Black History Month Festival is ...

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 ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

(WALA) - The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a contract for a welcome center in the Africatown community ... they were brought illegally to Alabama on the Clotilda slave ship ...

Jeremy Ellis’s ancestors were among the 110 enslaved people who survived the last known Transatlantic voyage in 1860 ...

Africatown Heritage House (Mobile, Alabama) This monument to the survivors and descendants of people who came to the U.S. on the last known slave ship is about four and a half hours outside of ...

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It’s happening from 6:00 to 10:00 Friday night at USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park ... It’s a celebration of Africatown’s cultural heritage, creativity and community.

The deepest lake in Alabama occupies 21,000 acres in Cullman, Walker and Winston Counties. What is the deepest lake in Alabama, and what does it have to offer the residents those who come to visit?