Mobile and Baldwin County News
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. — Africatown came alive this weekend as Culture Fest 2026 filled the Africatown Heritage House, the Robert Hope Community Center and Mobile County Training School with music,…
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…
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…
The Alabama Historical Commission has filed an admiralty claim in federal court in Mobile to shield the wreck of the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to…
Alabama officials have confirmed that a wreck found in the Mobile River is the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans into the United States, a discovery that…
Africatown community leaders and researchers from the Smithsonian, National Park Service and Alabama Historical Commission announced an investigation into a shipwreck that may be the Clotilda, the last known slave…
One of the more remarkable chapters in Mobile County’s history begins with a bet. In 1860, Mobile shipyard owner Timothy Meaher wagered $100,000 with friends that he could defy the…