Mobile and Baldwin County News
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…
MOBILE — Nearly 160 years after the Clotilda sank in the Mobile River, the remains of the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States have been found…
State archaeologists have confirmed that a shipwreck lying in the Mobile River is the Clotilda, the last known vessel to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The Alabama Historical…
Ahead of receiving the 2017 Griot Award, retired Maj. Gen. Gary Cooper recounts a life shaped by segregation in Mobile, service in Vietnam and decades of breaking racial barriers in…
Hundreds gathered in downtown Prichard for a Juneteenth celebration filled with gospel music, family heirlooms and reflection on history.
Mobile native Vivian Malone Jones helped change the history of higher education in Alabama when she entered the University of Alabama in 1963 and became its first Black graduate two…
Dr. Paul Ruffin, the U.S. Army's first Black senior research scientist, will address the 21st annual Martin Luther King Memorial Breakfast at Bishop State Community College in Mobile.
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…
Nearly two centuries after the United States banned the importation of enslaved people, a Mobile-area businessman financed one final, illegal voyage across the Atlantic — and the community founded by…