A native of Mobile’s Crichton neighborhood, Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood has served the Mobile County area, the state of Alabama and the country through her work as an attorney. She ...

Walter Moorer didn’t attend the weekend’s events for the grand opening of the Africatown Heritage House, or those memorializing the 163rd anniversary of the arrival of the slave ship Clotilda. He said ...

AfricaTown holds great historical significance as one of the nation’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. It’s credited as being one of the first places where freed slaves from Africa settled in ...

MOBILE, Ala. (CN) — One idea takes the flood-prone property that was formerly the Josephine Allen public housing complex and deliberately inundates it, creating a freshwater basin where kids can learn ...

The 2022 documentary “Descendant” tells the enormously compelling story of the families of captives from the last American slave ship, which anchored in Africatown, Alabama in 1860. Underscoring the ...

Now, 162 years later, the residents of Africatown, Alabama – founded in 1866 by the formally enslaved – are taking back the narrative of their ancestors and demanding accountability. In Descendant, ...

Former New York Mets all-star outfielder Cleon Jones is now 80, but he's proving you're never too old to make a difference. Jones caught the last out as the 1969 Miracle Mets won the World Series, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The 5k Africatown Bridge Challenge is this weekend. The Challenge is a certified 5k run/walk course that offers a view of historic Africatown, the Mobile River, Port of Mobile, ...

The Senior Bowl has called Mobile, Alabama, home for all but one of its 75 years of existence. It is the pre-draft season's largest and most celebrated college football all-star game, an annual affair ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Africatown Heritage House, a museum in Mobile with an exhibition from the community first founded by the slaves brought to Alabama on the last known slave ship, the Clotilda, ...

In honor of Black History Month, New York Met great Cleon Jones, who caught the last out of the 1969 World Series, shares his incredible story: from his friendship with Jackie Robinson as a player to ...