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Time has run out on the game
America plays with racial injustice

by | 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...
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How would it feel if YOU were a slave?

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

by | 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...
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Clotilda in the News

Passing it on: African art teacher talks ancestry, MLK legacy

America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities.

nationalgeographic.com

Zora Neale Hurston’s Work Preserves Memories of Captive Who Made Journey on Last Slave Ship to U.S.

By Tamara Shiloh  | January 16, 2020

Clotilda in the News

December 2019

Planes, trains, automobiles and slave ship: Will Mobile’s hot issues of 2019 resonate in 2020?

November 2019

Perspectives: Clotilda

Marine conference to include look at Clotilda science

America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer A Case For Reparations

Written by Kevin Mwanza | Nov 01, 2019
October 2019

Johnson: Why do slave-ship Clotilda owner’s descendants still cower in silence?

AL.com | Updated Oct 08, 11:32 AM; Posted Oct 08, 7:27 AM

How the Last American Slave Ship Could Remake the Reparations Debate

BY TOBIAS CARROLL / OCTOBER 7, 2019 8:00 AM

America’s last slave ship could offer a case for reparations

The Case for Clotilda

Archaeology – A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America | September/October 2019

September 2019

Senator Doug Jones Memorializes Discovery of the Clotilda in Senate Resolution

Internationally renowned urban designer to present at APDesign Ekdahl Lecture Series

Alabama historical commission claims control of Clotilda, the last US slave ship

Posted Sep 17, 2019

No one claims ownership of last slave ship ‘Clotilda’

By JAY REEVES, ASSOCIATED PRESS BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Sep 17, 2019, 1:08 PM ET

Last Slave Ship, Clotilda and the Story of the Last Slave Survivor from Africa to the US

BY 

August 2019

Africatown holds day of healing, bell ringing on 400th anniversary of slave trade

by Lindsey Bullard | 

DON NOBLE: ‘Clotilda’ finding ties in well with publishing of Hurston novel

Posted Aug 24, 2019 at 3:00 PM

Most slave shipwrecks have been overlooked—until now

BY KIM M. WILLIAMSON | PUBLISHED 

New program introducing diving in Africatown community

July 2019

Last slave ship: Alabama files federal claim of ownership

By Associated Press |Posted Jul 31, 2019 at 12:01 AM  

Alabama Historical Commission files to become custodian of Clotilda artifact

by Brad Gunther | Wednesday, July 31st 2019

Alabama files federal claim of ownership for Clotilda, the last slave ship

The Associated Press | Published 9:23 a.m. CT July 30, 2019

Solar Standing Rock, space chile, wakesurfing: News from around our 50 states

From USA TODAY Network and wire reports | Published 2:57 a.m. ET July 29, 2019

Alabama seeks to preserve Clotilda wreckage

by The Associated Press | Sunday, July 28th 2019

Alabama moves to protect the Clotilda, believed to be the last ship to bring slaves to the US

By Ralph Ellis, CNN | Updated 8:59 PM ET, Fri July 26, 2019

Africatown International Design Idea Competition to help tell Clotilda’s story

Fox 10 | Updated 

Op-Ed: The Clotilda is the only American slave ship ever found. It needs to be preserved.

By BEN RAINES | JULY 21, 2019 | 3:05 AM

Coard: Last enslaved alive when grandparents were born

Michael Coard | Jul 5, 2019

June 2019

How The Last Shipment Of Slaves Founded Africatown in The Notoriously Racist Deep South

 

Lionel Tarumbwa | Thu, Jun 27, 2019

The Spectacular Find of the Clotilda and What’s Next

By Birmingham Times

Alabama’s Africatown Hopes For Revival After Slave Ship Discovery

Heard on All Things Considered

The Port City commemorating Juneteenth

by: Amber Grigley Posted:  / Updated: 

South Alabama to celebrate Juneteenth in full force

By Lily Jackson | [email protected]

Future of the Clotilda

Fox 10 | Posted 

Southern Miss researchers helped find last known U.S. slave ship in Mobile Bay

BY RICHARD FAUSSET 

May 2019

Alabama heralds ‘last slave ship’ discovery; ponders future

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press | May 30, 2019

Extraordinary archaeological find’: Last known US slave ship found in Alabama

, USA TODAYPublished 9:59 a.m. ET May 23, 2019 | Updated 11:31 a.m. ET May 23, 2019

Historians have been searching for the last slave ship that came to America. They found it in Alabama

Updated 2:10 PM ET, Thu May 23, 2019 | By Doug Criss, CNN

Clotilda found in Alabama: What’s next for wrecked schooner? What does it mean for Africatown?

By Lawrence Specker | [email protected]

Graphics Editor Behind Clotilda Illustration Shares His Perspective

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