WWII Reenactors Bring the USS Alabama to Life at Living History Crew Drill
USS ALABAMA Battleship Memorial Park turns back the clock this Saturday, Oct. 7, as its “Living History Crew Drill” runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. aboard the battleship and…
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USS ALABAMA Battleship Memorial Park turns back the clock this Saturday, Oct. 7, as its “Living History Crew Drill” runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. aboard the battleship and…
Aviation fans get a rare close-up look at one of the Cold War’s most legendary aircraft programs this month, as the Blackbird Expo lands Oct. 13-15 at USS ALABAMA Battleship…
The Africatown Heritage House in Mobile has been named one of the six best museums in the United States for 2023 by National Geographic, an honor that spotlights a community…
The story of Africatown and the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States, is set to reach a global audience when the documentary “Descendant”…
Officials at USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile will hold a public ceremony Tuesday marking the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1941 surprise assault…
A new short documentary on the Clotilda and the Africatown community its survivors founded premiered in Savannah, Georgia, part of a Mobile-funded push to build heritage tourism around the ship's…
The board of directors for the Africatown Redevelopment Corporation (ARC) has been officially appointed, Alabama House Representative Adline C. Clarke announced on October 6, 2021, in Mobile. The ARC board…
Chickasaw Civic Theatre prepares to open its long-delayed production of "Big Fish: A Larger Than Life Musical," while the Mobile Museum of Art postpones an Art Talk on Mobile's Jim…
MOBILE, Ala. — Hundreds of visitors gathered at Battleship Memorial Park for the annual Armed Forces Day celebration, a full morning of activity that featured a 5k run, veteran tributes,…
Generations of Africatown residents have battled cancer and industrial pollution from neighboring paper mills, leading to a decades-long legal fight against International Paper that ended in a confidential settlement in…