AFRICATOWN NEW BUSINESS CENTER AND FOOD BANK
“After working in the best interest of The Historic Africatown Community and its residents for more than 10 years, I feel as though I have just made it to the […]
AFRICATOWN SUPPORTERS COMMENTS ABOUT MOBILE’S PROPOSED TRUCK ONLY TOLL BRIDGE
AFRICATOWN SUPPORTERS COMMENTS ABOUT MOBILE’S PROPOSED TRUCK ONLY TOLL BRIDGE The meeting conducted on the Eastern Shore about The Proposed Truck only Toll Bridge Project was much better than the […]
Africatown vs. Mobile’s New Zoning Change Proposals – Part 3 of 3
This third and final blog of this series contains 2 parts: Part 1 presents the diverse, unified response from The Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition (MEJAC) to Mobile’s proposed new […]
Africatown vs. Mobile’s New Zoning Change Proposals – Part 2 of 3
This second of 3 blogs examining the City of Mobile’s proposed zoning changes is broken down into 3 parts. Part 1 contains information from Africatown residents contained in our Africatown […]
Africatown vs. Mobile’s New Zoning Change Proposals – Part 1 of 3
“First they will come for your arm and you will give them your thumb, hoping that will be enough. One year later they will come again for your arm and […]
Africatown (North Mobile) Gets 35 Million Viewers, While Brookley (South Mobile) Gets $35 Million for Tourism
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 […]
Second Annual “Breakfast with Santa” Shines Light in Dark Times
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 […]
60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper Set to Air Clotilda/Africatown Story Nov. 29
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 […]
Alabama Power Foundation Donates $75,000 to Heritage House Project in Africatown
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 […]