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In honor of Black History Month, New York Met great Cleon Jones, who caught the last out of the 1969 World Series, shares his incredible story: from his friendship with Jackie Robinson as a player

The official start of the first major tourism attraction connected to the 2019 discovery of the last slave ship to enter the United States kicked off Thursday, February 19, 2021, with a ceremony that

These visionaries are imagining an exciting future with chicken-less eggs, self-piloting ships and more

By Rasha Aridi

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
JANUARY 7, 2021

DEBBIE ELLIOTT

The recent discovery of the remains of the last slave ship to the United States is bringing hope of revival to Africatown. It's a small community in Mobile, Ala., founded by African

Posted: Jul 16, 2020 / 06:28 PM CDT

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WKRG) — The state of Alabama appropriated $1 million to the Alabama Historical Commission to preserve the

Descendants of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring slaves to North America, participated in a reunion called the “Spirit of Our Ancestors” festival in Africatown, near Mobile, Alabama. American

American History TV joined tour guide Eric Finley to learn about the early history of Mobile, Alabama, and to visit Africatown, a National Historic Landmark neighborhood north of the city founded by

Alabama has filed a federal court claim to ownership of the wreckage of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the U.S., a move the archaeologist who helped find the ship says

The wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship to transport enslaved Africans to the United States, sits entombed in mud at the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama. It is the only ship from the American

MOBILE, Ala. — For decades, a handful of ancestors and neighborhood historians held down the legends of Africatown’s founding, recalling the stories of kidnapped people ripped from Africa and forced