Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Africatown from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
MOBILE, Ala. — The City of Mobile has selected the team that will lead design and engineering for the planned Africatown Welcome Center, bringing together firms behind some of the…
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…
Construction bids have gone out for the $600,000 Africatown Heritage House, a museum building near Mobile's Clotilda discovery site, with History Museum of Mobile Director Meg Fowler detailing plans for…
National attention returns to one of Mobile’s most storied historic sites this weekend, as the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” prepares to air a segment on the schooner Clotilda — the…
MOBILE, Ala. — Alabama is moving forward with plans to study and recover artifacts from the submerged wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship known to have landed on…
The Alabama Historical Commission will begin a new $1 million phase of Clotilda preservation work this fall, combining artifact excavation with environmental and engineering studies of the wreck site near…
CNN's Anderson Cooper made the rounds in Mobile while filming a "60 Minutes" segment on the Clotilda, adding a celebrity spark to a Mardi Gras season that also brought a…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones used his first Gulf Coast public appearance since the impeachment vote to defend his decision to convict President Trump, telling a Mobile audience he was bound…
A Festival Rooted in Ancestry Dozens of people gathered in Mobile’s Africatown community for the second annual Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival, a two-day program commemorating the history of the…
The first full week of February brings a dense slate of festivals, fundraisers, lectures and Mardi Gras season festivities across Mobile and Baldwin counties. Here is a look at the…