AFRICATOWN, Ala. (WKRG) — Culture Fest 2025, hosted by the Africatown Heritage House, will be taking place in Mobile at the end of the month, according to the History Museum of Mobile. The one-day ...

A campaign of new construction and historic renovation in Mobile’s Africatown community will receive a $2.5 million federal ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – All Things Africatown is preparing to kick off Black History Month with a free festival the first ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - There was a great opportunity today to learn about the history and culture of Africatown in Mobile. A culture festival was held at the Africatown Heritage House, where Clotilda ...

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 of ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (Gulf Coast CW TV) — It’s a big weekend of celebrating African American Heritage with Culture Fest and an Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival, but that’s not all! Celebrate Christmas in ...

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Jan. 27, 2026 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Africatown Redevelopment Corporation ...

We’re getting our first look at Johnny Bowman Jr., a local business owner who’s in the hospital recovering from five bullet wounds after police say he opened fire on officers inside his business in ...