Tag: descendants
Growing Black Businesses Through a Magic City Match in Birmingham
revbirmingham.org
Magic City Match is an initiative led by REV Birmingham and powered by Prosper to match Black-owned businesses with Birmingham brick-and-mortar spaces where they can thrive.
After a successful...
Inside Historic Africatown With Descendants of Slave Ship Clotilda
By Vickii Howell
Special to the Birmingham Times
MOBILE, Ala.—For decades, a handful of ancestors and neighborhood historians held down the legends of Africatown’s founding, recalling...
Malveaux: Four hundred years later and we still ain’t clear
Four hundred years and we still ain’t clear
By Julianne Malveaux
According to some historians, Afrodescendents first entered these united states in 1619 off the coast...