AFRICATOWN Non-Profits receive $200k to help promote Cultural Heritage Tourism Thanks to the fund raising efforts of The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Mastercard and The Descendant Documentary, four Africatown non-profit […]
AFRICATOWN Native & others receive local NAACP Awards Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood, retired educator Ms. Mattie Shepard & Africatown Native Dr. Major Joe Womack (USMCR ret.) were the recipients […]
AFRICATOWN’S UNESCO MARKER placed in Lewis Landing Park There are now 52 sites in the United States that have been identified as Middle Passage Sites and Now Africatown is one of […]
In 2017 three Africatown supporters; Joe Womack, Teresa Bettis & Ramsey Sprague attended an Alabama River Alliance convention in Mobile to participate in a workshop conducted by The National Park […]
In 1910 Africatown’s School, Mobile County Training School, was certified by the State of Alabama as the first training school in the state of Alabama and was the only […]
AFRICATOWN’s Lantern Walk cements it’s place in Africatown Folklore About five years ago, 6 community organizations started annual events that have developed into National & International Events and have attracted a […]
AFRICATOWN conducts another Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Last year in April 2024, The Mobile County Training School (M.C.T.S.) Alumni Association announced that it had received a $100,000 grant from The Monument […]
AFRICATOWN’s Community Day Festival continues to grow in 2025 An overflow crowd of more than 3,000 people attended the 10th anniversary of an Africatown Cultural Event created to pay homage to […]
AFRICATOWNHeritage House Museum 2025 Cultural Fest continues to grow Led by Montgomery’s Equal Justice Initiative Legacy Museum (The Lynching Museum) and Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute, Cultural Heritage Tourism has become the […]
