Just in time for Juneteenth, a new documentary highlights an untold story of African-American history. Overwhelmed by the moment, Clotilda descendant Cassandra Lewis shares a heartfelt embrace with ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - National Geographic has produced another film about the Clotilda, the last known slave ship that historians say arrived in Mobile more than a century ago. ‘Clotilda: The Return ...

More than 160 years ago, 110 West African captives were smuggled up Alabama’s Mobile River aboard the Clotilda, the last slave ship on record carrying enslaved people to America. After extensive ...

An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...

The ship is “too broken” and “too decayed” to be evacuated, archaeologists say. The task force headed by the Alabama Historical Commission determined that the Clotilda, the last ship known to ...

Alabama funded a $1 million investigation to see if the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the US, can be excavated from the Mobile River. The ship’s captain, Willam Foster, traveled to West ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of ...