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"Environmental #racism is affecting their health, quality of life, and must be addressed." https://www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/help-us-we-need-help-africatown-neighbors-and-advocates-begging-for-relief-from-environmental-racism/
#Africatown #Clotilda #EnvironmentalJustice

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The Clotilda Story

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Honoring the ancestors: #Africatown, with some theatrics, honors #Clotilda survivors during annual festival https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/honoring-the-ancestors-africatown-with-some-theatrics-honors-clotilda-survivors-during-annual-festival.html

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National Geographic TV

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Although the Clotilda sank 162 years ago, the impact it had on the descendants of the 110 kidnapped Africans echoes still to this day. Watch #Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship Monday Feb 7 at 10/9c on National Geographic.

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The Clotilda Story

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‘Descendant’ – A Documentary About Africatown and its Secrets Revealed https://lasentinel.net/descendant-a-documentary-about-africatown-and-its-secrets-revealed.html

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The Clotilda Story

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Auburn engineering alumnus discusses family, Alabama connection to last American slave ship https://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2022/02/031105-jeremy-ellis-engineering.php#.Yf1N7rKasko.twitter
#Clotilda #Africatown #WarEagle

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The Clotilda Story

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'Descendant' goes inside discovery of slave ship Clotilda https://news.yahoo.com/descendant-docmentary-movie-clotilda-slave-ship-discovery-africatown-mobile-alabama-205549709.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via @YahooNews

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The Clotilda Story

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Both showings of the short stage performance “An Ocean in My Bones” by playwright & director Terrence Spivey are #soldout! Thanks for all of your support. See you at the show. #Clotilda #Africatown

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The Clotilda Story

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The online premiere of Margaret Brown's documentary "Descendant" at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival is January 22nd . Single event tickets are $20! #Clotilda #Africatown.

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The online premiere of Margaret Brown's documentary "Descendant" at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival is January 22nd . Single event tickets are $20! #Clotilda #Africatown. https://twitter.com/sundancefest/status/1481674423291695110

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The online premiere of Margaret Brown's documentary "Descendant" at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival is January 22nd . Single event tickets are $20! #Clotilda #Africatown.

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by Darron Patterson | August 27, 2020 | blogs | 3 Comments

Having been a sportswriter my entire professional career, I have had a ringside seat to watch African American athletes be treated as nothing more than “entertainers” for rich professional sports owners or mega-bucks college athletic programs. It was only a matter of...

How would it feel if YOU were a slave?

by Darron Patterson | July 12, 2019 | blogs | 3 Comments

It has been almost two months since the wreckage of slave ship Clotilda was found buried in murky waters north of Mobile Bay. And since then, the one burning question constantly posed to we descendants of those 110 Africans aboard that last - and illegal - slave...

Clotilda wreck had been “disturbed,” but by whom?

by Darron Patterson | June 7, 2019 | blogs | 1 Comment

Of all the things special about being a direct descendant of Africans who were aboard slave ship Clotilda, recently found lying under 20-feet of water in Mobile Bay, finding out what really happened to the 158-year-old relic might be the most exciting. From the...