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 ...

More than 160 years ago, a schooner carrying illegal human cargo sailed into Mobile Bay. It was a half-century after the importation of slaves had been outlawed in the U.S. Still, in the dark of night ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Two locations in Mobile are now recognized for their role in the Reconstruction Era, a period of U.S. history after the Civil War. The National Park Service recognizes more than ...

The Clotilda is the last known slave ship to dock on U.S. shores. Harlem-based firm JEROME HAFERD (BRANDT : HAFERD) was awarded first prize in the Africatown International Design Idea Competition for ...

Africatown and McIntosh are two predominantly Black communities located in Alabama's "chemical corridor," a 60-mile stretch of land. Africatown and McIntosh, two predominantly Black communities ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony. Attendees, many of them ...

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) — 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, ...

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 ...