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

November 27, 2020November 28, 2020 CHESS Administrator

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 CHESS Administrator

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 […]

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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 […]

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Africatown’s New Foundation Wins National Preservation Grant

July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 CHESS Administrator

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 […]

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C.H.E.S.S. Leaders Speak on National Geographic Panel in Washington, D.C.

March 25, 2020March 26, 2020 CHESS Administrator

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 […]

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Collaboration Workshop Launches the Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.

January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 CHESS Administrator

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

July 28, 2019August 23, 2019 CHESS Administrator

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 […]

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Africatown Mobile Inspires Africatown Seattle Leaders to Preserve Their Cultural Legacy

July 21, 2019August 11, 2019 CHESS Administrator

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 […]

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