Collaboration Workshop Launches the Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.
The letters “T,” “E,” “A,” and “M,” were each printed on separate pieces of paper, and placed on 10 tables, where more than 80 people sat in a room at […]
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Africatown Says ‘Yes’ to Proposed Architectural Competition at CHESS Community Meeting
What if architects could design 30 new types of houses to put on Africatown’s vacant lots? What if the floodplain on the abandoned Josephine Allen public housing site could be […]
Africatown Mobile Inspires Africatown Seattle Leaders to Preserve Their Cultural Legacy
K. Wyking Garrett thought he was doing something novel when he and others came up with the name “Africa Town” to preserve what was left of the once bustling black […]
Clotilda Discovery Prompts Celebration in Africatown
News that underwater archaeologists, divers, historians and preservationists confirmed that one of the shipwrecks in the Mobile River delta was indeed the Clotilda slave ship brought celebration to all of […]
AFRICATOWN NATIVE FEATURED IN NAVY NEWS ARTICLE – CHIEF JASON LEWIS
NRLA Sailors Volunteer at MLK Day of Service Event Story and photos by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Kathleen Gorby MOBILE, AL. – More than 180 Sailors from Navy Recruiting Leadership […]
What’s Happening with C.H.E.S.S. in Africatown-November 2018
Africatown residents voiced their concerns in a first-of-its-kind meeting with one of the big chemical companies in the area, which experienced problems when one of the tanks delivered to its […]
National Park Service Announces Official Beginning of the Africatown Connections Blueway Project
(MOBILE, Ala. – Jun 01, 2018) – The National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program is pleased to announce the official launch of the Africatown Connections Blueway — a […]
Alabama Historical Commission Continues Clotilda Search in New Project
The Alabama Historical Commission announced that it is launching a new effort to find and catalog sunken ships in the Mobile River delta, months after the unsuccessful hunt to find […]
Historic Preservationists Arrive in Mobile to Confirm If Uncovered Wreckage Is the Sunken Slave Ship Clotilda
Divers and Researchers Are Expected to Announce Their Findings During A March 7 Community Meeting in Africatown (Mobile, AL February 28, 2018) — The Mobile County Training School Alumni Association […]
C.H.E.S.S and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice Host Africatown Community Forum on Nov. 30th
Mobile, Alabama — The newest nonprofit in Africatown — Clean, Health, Educated, Safe & Sustainable, Inc. or C.H.E.S.S. — will host an Environmental Justice Community Forum at the Hope Community Center, 850 […]