Karlos Finley is a local attorney and judge in Mobile. A native of Mobile, Finley is a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and serves as the President of the Dora Franklin Finley African American Heritage ...

The Africatown Heritage House took another step forward Friday and set an opening date – July 8. “Everything that you see happening here on this campus has been because a lot of people pulled together ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AfricaTown holds great historical significance as one of the nation’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. It’s credited as ...

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 ...

One hundred and sixty-three years is a long time when you want to forget. Not so when you want to remember. When you want to remember, it’s just a moment ago. So it is for the descendants of Clotilda, ...

A small Alabama city strapped for water and economic stability is slated for a potential data center. New York-based IT company Edged Energy is proposing a $93 million data center for the city of ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Officials with the History Museum of Mobile have announced they will be hosting CLOTILDA: THE EXHIBITION at the Africatown Heritage House in July. July 8th marks 163 years since ...

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, ...

*A historic moment was marked, as the Pollee and Rose Allen School of Logistics and Trade concluded its inaugural semester in celebration of National Logistics Day, symbolizing not just the close of a ...

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 ...