Mobile and Baldwin County News
Clotilda: The Exhibition at Africatown Heritage House remains open Tuesdays through Saturdays, offering visitors a close look at the history of the Clotilda and the Africatown community it helped create.
The Africatown Heritage House in Mobile has been named one of the six best museums in the United States for 2023 by National Geographic, spotlighting a community founded by the…
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”…
Africatown residents are pushing for the historic Mobile community to be designated a “safety zone” under the city’s updated zoning code, arguing that encroaching industrial development threatens both the health…
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…
Alabama’s state historical commission appears poised to retain control of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring enslaved people to the United States. Friday was the deadline for…
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 — and…
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…
A veteran Alabama journalist believes he may have located one of the most sought-after wrecks in American history: the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the…