Africatown
Africatown Hall & Food Bank Opens
The Africatown Hall & Food Bank recently opened at 2201 Paper Mill Road in Mobile, the Mobile County Commission announced. The commission says that the...
Africatown Heritage House Bioswale, Garden Open
The Africatown Heritage House Bioswale, a learning laboratory for the Mobile County Training School’s students and teachers, was dedicated in an instructional ceremony on August...
Descendant To Get Gala Premiere At Mobile Saenger
MOBILE, Ala. — The award-winning documentary Descendant, which tells the story of the Africatown community founded by survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, will get...
Alabama Author Releases The Last Slave Ship
MOBILE, Ala. — Alabama author Ben Raines, a former AL.com journalist and a longtime environmental writer, recently released The Last Slave Ship, a book that...
Mobile Native’s Africatown Film Accepted By Sundance
Descendant, an Africatown film by Mobile native and director Margaret Brown, has been accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, AL.com reported. Brown has previously created...
Africatown Heritage House Parts Arrive
Prefabricated portions of the Africatown Heritage House were recently delivered to the Robert L. Hope Community Center South Georgia, AL.com reports. The permanent home for...
Africatown Documentary Premieres At Film Festival
The world premiere of the student-produced documentary film Surviving Clotilda took place on October 28 during the 24th annual Savannah College of Art and Design...
Africatown Documentary to Premiere This Weekend
Filmmaker Theo M. Moore, II, made people, both historical figures and contemporary sources, the focus of his Africatown documentary Afrikan by Way of American, the...
Mobile Brings Mission Serve to Africatown
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson announced that 10 locations throughout the Africatown and Plateau area were re-roofed and repainted by more than 220 volunteers from Alpharetta,...
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