AFRICATOWN, Ala. (WKRG) — Culture Fest 2025, hosted by the Africatown Heritage House, will be taking place in Mobile at the end of the month, according to the History Museum of Mobile. The one-day ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - There was a great opportunity today to learn about the history and culture of Africatown in Mobile. A culture festival was held at the Africatown Heritage House, where Clotilda ...

More than a decade ago, the Africatown Welcome Center was a deteriorating trailer overlooking a 149-year-old cemetery. It sat adjacent to the vandalized busts of Cudjoe Lewis, the famed survivor of ...

The plaque is to honor the two million captive Africans who died during the Trans-Atlantic Crossing known as the Middle Passage and the 10 million who survived.

A new festival will celebrate the legacy and potential of the Africatown community this weekend, offering a four-day slate of free events. The inaugural Owambe Black History Month Festival is ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony. Attendees, many of them ...

In the coming months or years, Mobile hopes to make history by beginning work on a much needed and greatly anticipated I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway const ...

MOBILE, Ala. (Gulf Coast CW TV) — It’s a big weekend of celebrating African American Heritage with Culture Fest and an Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival, but that’s not all! Celebrate Christmas in ...

We’re getting our first look at Johnny Bowman Jr., a local business owner who’s in the hospital recovering from five bullet wounds after police say he opened fire on officers inside his business in ...