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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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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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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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Clotilda Discovery Prompts Celebration in Africatown

June 11, 2019August 9, 2019 CHESS Administrator

News that underwater archaeologists, divers, historians and preservationists confirmed that one of the shipwrecks in the Mobile River delta was indeed the Clotilda slave ship brought celebration to all of […]

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“Spirit of Our Ancestors” Festival A Huge Success

February 24, 2019December 15, 2019 CHESS Administrator

C.H.E.S.S. Community Engagement Officer Sets the Pace for New Annual Event in Africatown Joycelyn Davis felt the tug to continue her family legacy, training under her aunt, Lorna Woods, to […]

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