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The Clotilda Story

2mo

On Saturday, July 9th , the Clotilda Descendants Association will commemorate the 162nd year anniversary of the harrowing voyage that brought their ancestors to America with the annual “Landing” ceremony underneath the Africatown Bridge beginning at noon. https://theclotildastory.com/events/

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The Clotilda Story

3mo

In #Africatown, tourism hopes following Clotilda discovery replaced with worries over zoning map https://www.al.com/news/2022/05/in-africatown-tourism-hopes-following-clotilda-discovery-replaced-with-worries-over-zoning-map.html
#Clotilda
#EnvironmentalJustice

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The Clotilda Story

3mo

A 10-day exploration on the Mobile River just wrapped up by the Alabama Historical Commission.

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#Clotilda

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Bitter Southerner

3mo

“All Y’all Really From Alabama.” 🎧 Listen to @ALPoetLaureate.

Thank you, Ashley Jones.

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The Clotilda Story

7mo

"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

7mo

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

7mo

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

7mo

‘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

7mo

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

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...