AFRICATOWN Community Day draws THOUSANDS The 9th annual Africatown Community Day Festival was a rousing success as an estimated crowd of over 1,000 Africatown residents, friends and visitors turned out […]

AFRICATOWN’s Clotilda to remain underwater – “for now” On August 8th, 2024, Africatown’s Robert Hope Community Center’s Multi-Purpose room was packed with Africatown Descendants, Natives, Residents & Supporters all waiting to […]

AFRICATOWN Hall and Food Bank – “THIS must be Africatown” Whenever a tourist or the everyday driver is headed west on the Mobile Causeway, coming from Baldwin County to Mobile County […]

AFRICATOWN/Port of Mobile meeting – “A good beginning”   Around 2010 I sat in on a community meeting in Africatown where a flatbed trucking company, Boyd Brothers, were trying to […]

AFRICATOWN’s School Alumni Association receives $200,000 in Funds to Preserve its History The Mobile County Training School Heritage Space and Archives is the next phase in a standing collaboration of Africatown […]

AFRICATOWN’s Railroad “Informational” meeting on 2/29/2024 Africatown parents, years ago, in order to keep their kids safe from bad elements that existed outside of our Africatown Community, would tell us […]

AFRICATOWN’s Public Hearing conducted by ADEM concerning the Hosea Weaver Asphalt Plant A group of about 75 people gathered at The Robert Hope Community Center in Africatown on February 5th […]

A crowded room of Africatown residents, natives and supporters showed up to be informed about the Port of Mobile’s plans to expand their railroad and tank car operations into The […]