A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

They were two of the 110 enslaved survivors aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to the Americas on 8 July 1860. They arrived in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama ...

The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...

The project gained renewed interest in 2019 when researchers confirmed that a shipwreck upriver from Mobile were the remains of the slave ship Clotilda. The ship had been burned by its owner ...

The Clotilda’s arrival into the Mobile Bay occurred in 1860, or 52 years after the transatlantic slave trade had been outlawed. The vessel, a wooden schooner, was the last known slave ship from ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a contract for a welcome center in the Africatown community that city officials hope will help spur tourism and other ...

"From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, ...

One of the best Netflix movies in years, this film tells the untold story of the Clotilda, the last known ship to smuggle stolen Africans to America — through the descendants of its captive ...