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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
{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 […]
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 […]
C.H.E.S.S.’s own President/CEO Joe Womack and Community Engagement Officer Joycelyn Davis were among the keynote speakers invited to National Geographic’s panel discussion in February to discuss its role in finding […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
