Emily Blejwas is the executive director of the Alabama Folklife Association. She is also the author of "The History of Alabama in Fourteen Foods" and creator of the new "Alabama Folk" podcast.

Mobile, Alabama is home to a plethora of historic landmarks that are worth visiting. Here are two must-see landmarks in Mobile. USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. 2703 Battleship Pkwy, Mobile ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

MOBILE, Ala. — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda - the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement - opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the ...

Since 2019, bringing that legacy to life has been the mission of Meg McCrummen Fowler, Ph.D., director of the History Museum of Mobile, which partnered with the Alabama Historical Commission ...

MOBILE, ALABAMA — “Step into my office,” Darron Patterson, 71, ... In Mobile, a slave ship's secret history and the criminal conspiracy that hid it for 159 years ...

MOBILE, Ala. - Throughout the years, women have played an important role in the historic preservation movement in the United States and locally.An upcoming discussion will share the story of how ...

MOBILE, Ala. >> A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the ...

A new museum Alabama tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to have transported Africans to the American South ... 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama's Mobile Bay. ...