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'Tis the season for summer beach vacations, which means that a lot of families will be traveling through the famous Mobile Tunnel.

'Tis the season for summer beach vacations, which means that a lot of families will be traveling through the famous Mobile Tunnel.

The discovery of the ship on an Alabama river bottom has fostered a renewed hope for descendants of the Clotilda's captives, and the community they founded called Africatown.

Novelist Corban Addison turns to nonfiction in "Wastelands," the real-life legal saga of North Carolina residents against a hog-industry behemoth.

MOBILE, Alabama — Rather than serving as any sort of national harbinger, the Republican primary election results in Alabama this week taught old-fashioned political lessons. Chief among them is that hard work, energy, and grassroots organizing still carry the day.

John Crear of Selma is the grandson of Matilda McCrear -- the last known survivor of the last known slave ship -- the Clotilda.

Artist Khari Turner, a Milwaukee native, uses naturally sourced water from places of Black history in his paintings.

The May 23, 1881, Richmond Item carried a story akin to the parody style of Mark Twain.

MOBILE, Ala. -- Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from what's left of the village built by the newly freed people after the Civil War.

A crew working on the Alabama coast is assessing the remains of the last slave ship known to have landed in the United States, more than 160 years ago. The research could help determine the future of descendants of the enslaved Africans who still live in the Alabama today