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Africatown (North Mobile) Gets 35 Million Viewers, While Brookley (South Mobile) Gets $35 Million for Tourism

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Joe Womack

While Mobile’s AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY’s appearance on 60 Minutes meant its exposure to a national audience of more than 35 million people and a tremendous boast to local efforts to promote […]

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Second Annual “Breakfast with Santa” Shines Light in Dark Times

December 14, 2020December 18, 2020 Vickii Howell

Gifts, food, happy children, delighted parents and a visit by that special Christmas couple from the North Pole made for a good time on Saturday, Dec. 12 as CHESS hosted […]

News

60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper Set to Air Clotilda/Africatown Story Nov. 29

November 27, 2020November 28, 2020 Vickii Howell

Africatown and the Clotilda story will be highlighted nationally on 60 Minutes, CBS New’s award-winning television news magazine show, with correspondent Anderson Cooper, who conducted interviews earlier this year. Cooper […]

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Alabama Power Foundation Donates $75,000 to Heritage House Project in Africatown

November 16, 2020November 28, 2020 Vickii Howell

The Alabama Power Foundation awarded a $75,000 grant to the History Museum of Mobile, putting it one step closer to sharing the Clotilda story and the town created by the […]

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Africatown Residents Win Over Commission to Block Zoning Variance

September 25, 2020October 1, 2020 Joe Womack

The Africatown Neighborhood Plan, which reflects the thoughts and wishes of Africatown residents for their community, was the motivating factor in the Mobile’s Zoning Board of Adjustment’ decision to deny […]

Community

Africatown Renovation Begins- Neighborhood Plan Is Working – $5.3 Million Approved

September 7, 2020September 25, 2020 Joe Womack

On the 150th anniversary of the “incorporation” of Africatown (1870 – 2020), the Year 2020 will be remembered in Africatown as the year monies were committed and projects were started […]

News

State Sets Aside $1 Million for Africatown’s Clotilda Preservation Project

August 17, 2020September 24, 2020 CHESS Administrator

{Images by the Alabama Historic Commission} In the FY 2021 budget, the State of Alabama through Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama State Legislature appropriated $1 Million to the Alabama […]

Founding Board Members of the Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
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Africatown’s New Foundation Wins National Preservation Grant

July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 Vickii Howell

Photo caption: Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation Board Members Anderson Flen, Ruth Ballard and Joe Womack. (Images courtesy Oberlin College and The Birmingham Times) The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African […]

Community

Henry C. Williams, Father of Africatown History

March 26, 2020 Joe Womack

While the world continues to learn about Africatown’s past, present and vision for the future, I would like to say a few words about one of my favorite Africatown heroes, […]

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