AFRICATOWN
Mobile, AL📍

Slavery is and always will be the USA's Original SIn.

Slave descendant Jeremy Ellis is no more than 3-4 (maybe 5) generations from the slaves on the Clotilda slave ship. The slaves were settled in Africatown. Alabama.

Jeremy has an MBA. He is the epitome of the American dream.…

Last fall, visual artist Adam Davis captured tintype photos of the descendants of Africatown during the premiere of the Higher Ground documentary Descendant. He recently took one of me, too. These photos were inspired by the images taken of a Clotilda survivor, Cudjoe Lewis.

So very proud of my husband as he continues to educate, inform and empower so many, in every capacity of life and work.
Saturday evening, Anderson Cooper and his 60 Minutes team interviewed Karlos Finley. Karlos is the executive director of the Africatown Redevelopment Corp. (ARC)…

Join us tonight and tomorrow for our film screening and roundtable discussion on Africatown and the Clotilda! This evening at 6pm in Claudia Crosby Theater, we'll be watching 'Afrikan by way of American' and talking with producer and Troy alum, Theo Moore.

2053, Seattle. It's illegal for anyone to partake in cuisine that doesn't match the color of their skin. Africans in Africatown only eat Jollof Rice and Fufu. Orientals stay in Lil Orient, surviving on JollyBee and Sushi.
Cultural appropriation, race mixing have been eradicated.

You better don't let this 'historian' Esteban Lucumí see this. Not only does he believe that Oranmiyan never existed, he also says Cudjoe Lewis and the other Yorubas on the Clotilda slave ship who founded Africatown in Alabama were Efik, despite the facts on ground😅😅😅

Africatown in Alabama, is the only surviving community in America founded by Africans. cbsn.ws/3uoNemN

Fascinating Africatown, also known as AfricaTown USA and Plateau, is a historic community located three miles north of downtown Mobile, Alabama. It was formed by a group of 32 West Africans, who in 1860 were bought and transported against their will in the last known illegal shipment of…

I had the privilege of heading to Africatown, AL (some of you may know of it from the Netflix doc Descendant) to support the Fall into Good Health Fair led by Rochelle. I learned so much about the history, community, and people in Africatown and Mobile!

Kenny Akers I went to Africatown and visited where the descendants of the Clothilde reside. I have a frat brother who is a descendant.

Oluale Kossola (Cudjo Lewis) Filmed On His Porch In Africatown, Mobile, Alabama By Zora Neale Hurston. (1927)

In 1860, Oluale Kossola Was Abducted From Africa And Put Onboard The Clotilda, The Last Slave Ship That Sailed To The United States.

Mobile from the Cochrane-Africatown bridge this morning. Beautiful day! 🌞 James Spann Spinks Megginson

Join our movement partner @redressnetwork for the 2nd annual Africatown Lantern Walk, November 3-5. They are working to regenerate the environment, restore cultural traditions, rebuild the economy to empower the community and begin repairing historical harms.

Miraculously surviving the journey, Cudjo arrived in the United States and was enslaved in Alabama. After emancipation, he, along with other freed Africans, founded Africatown, a community preserving their heritage and culture in the face of adversity.

If you are ever in Mobile AL, be sure to visit the Clotilda Exhibit clotilda.com/visit-us/?amp=1 in Africatown. And they even have a former Rosenwald school that still functions as a school to this day! I was most definitely Edu-fangirling! Because of them, I shall do all the things!

It is with deep sadness that we are mourning the loss of Elijah Lewis. Elijah was committed to the community in so many ways, whether in his work with Africatown, Ethereal Vision, or teaching financial literacy to the youth at RBAC.

You will be missed Elijah. Rest in peace.

On July 8, 1860, the last known slave ship, Clotilda, sailed into Mobile Bay with 110 African men, women, and children on board. Following Emancipation, many of these families established the settlement of Africatown. Learn more about their legacy with ALABAMA LEGACY MOMENTS!

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