MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - National Geographic has produced another film about the Clotilda, the last known slave ship that historians say arrived in Mobile more than a century ago. ‘Clotilda: The Return ...
Just in time for Juneteenth, a new documentary highlights an untold story of African-American history. Overwhelmed by the moment, Clotilda descendant Cassandra Lewis shares a heartfelt embrace with ...
In their last scene, the characters of “An Ocean In My Bones” are no longer enslaved, no longer oppressed, no longer infirm. They stand tall and give an account of themselves. Until its final act, the ...
It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she ...
The small west African nation of Benin last year enacted a law granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved people to acknowledge the country’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade, and ...
It's time to raise the curtain.