AfricaTown holds great historical significance as one of the nation’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. It’s credited as being one of the first places where freed slaves from Africa settled in ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The 5k Africatown Bridge Challenge is this weekend. The Challenge is a certified 5k run/walk course that offers a view of historic Africatown, the Mobile River, Port of Mobile, ...

A native of Mobile’s Crichton neighborhood, Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood has served the Mobile County area, the state of Alabama and the country through her work as an attorney. She ...

Cable TV news personality Anderson Cooper returned to Mobile last weekend to visit Africatown, nearly three years after a “60 Minutes” production highlighted the plight of a community founded by the ...

MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The Africatown Redevelopment Corporation’s mission to preserve the town’s history, revitalize housing, and attract and develop commerce is coming along as a new home was ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile announced a date for its second Africatown Welcome Center design community meeting. It’s happening on Thursday, May 25 at 6:00 PM. This meeting, like the first ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Mobile City Council voted Tuesday to approve a construction contract for the Africatown Welcome Center. According to city officials, construction can begin once the United ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- The City of Mobile is just days away from the opening of the Africatown Heritage House. There, you'll be able to experience the history of the Clotilda Slave Ship. Africatown is a ...

The Senior Bowl has called Mobile, Alabama, home for all but one of its 75 years of existence. It is the pre-draft season's largest and most celebrated college football all-star game, an annual affair ...

More than 160 years ago, a schooner carrying illegal human cargo sailed into Mobile Bay. It was a half-century after the importation of slaves had been outlawed in the U.S. Still, in the dark of night ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The city is getting closer to starting construction on a welcome center in the historic Africatown community. The Mobile City Council today took up a proposed $4.6 million ...

With a population of less than 70 people, the small neighborhood of Plateau, known as Africatown, preserves the story of West Africans who survived the last-known illegal slave ship to reach the ...