MOBILE, Ala. – The years have been hard on Africatown USA. Established by the last boatload of Africans abducted into slavery and shipped to the United States just before the Civil War, the ...

Africatown State Park was created through state legislation in 1985. But no money has ever been set aside for its development. The park is getting renewed attention 36 years later as efforts ramp ...

Jackson said there are indications of graves underneath Bay Bridge Road – the expansive, multi-lane highway that leads to the Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge that links motorists from Africatown ...

More than a decade ago, the Africatown Welcome Center was a deteriorating trailer overlooking a 149-year-old cemetery. It sat adjacent to the vandalized busts of Cudjoe Lewis, the famed survivor ...

Longtime residents of the Mobile community called "Africatown USA" recall the days when it was a beehive of activity, with Black descendants of the last slave ship to land in the United States ...

Today, Africatown (also known as Africatown USA or Plateau) has been incorporated into the Mobile metropolitan area. Aside from a mural of the Clotilda on a retaining wall and a plaque at a local ...

The years have been hard on Africatown USA. Established by the last boatload of Africans abducted into slavery and shipped to the United States just before the Civil War, the coastal Alabama ...

MOBILE, Ala. — The years have been hard on Africatown USA. Established by the last boatload of Africans abducted into slavery and shipped to the United States just before the Civil War, the ...

MOBILE, Ala. – The years have been hard on Africatown USA. Established by the last boatload of Africans abducted into slavery and shipped to the United States just before the Civil War, the ...