Mobile's place in Mardis Gras history was solidified when a cotton broker named Michael Krafft unwittingly created the first mystic society and led the first Mardi Gras parade.

The first New year's Day after the Civil War ended brought hopes for a "fixed and permanent" peace for the still-traumatized ...

During the slavery era in the Americas, enslaved men, women and children enjoyed the holidays - which offered a chance to ...

Women going it alone and searching for adventure in the States should seek out these under-the-radar cities, says Lucy ...

Black History Month is observed to honor the achievements, history, and contributions of African Americans. It’s a time to ...

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies ...

Between 1865 and 1890 – dates that roughly reflect when the U.S. and Brazil, respectively, abolished slavery – 8,000 to 10,000 white ... For example, when Birmingham, Alabama’s mayor tried to remove ...

This holiday season, Candice Hammons is grateful for one of the greatest gifts she received this year: unwavering support for ...

Beneath Alabama’s Mobile River rests a relic of American history: the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach U.S.

It is a historically rich site that physically connects centuries of the transatlantic slave trade to the people it enslaved. And now the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC), which a few years ago ...

And for hundreds of years, we were sold into slavery as part of a war, or forcibly stolen from our homes, traded for goods that had come from Europe. Then we were transported thousands of miles ...