The Ashé Cultural Arts Center held a gathering at Congo Square and led a procession through Tremé Saturday morning (July 5) on the 25th anniversary of their MAAFA Commemoration, paying homage to ...

In clear but sorrowful tones, Voodoo Queen Kalindah Laveaux stood Saturday on the cobblestones of Congo Square and sang about the 20 million Africans who were brought to the Americas chained to plank ...

The Montgomery Airport Authority announced Loyd Jenkins as the new executive director of Montgomery Regional Airport on Friday. A Reeltown graduate’s life was taken and another person was seriously ...

The Ashé Cultural Arts Center celebrates 25 years of Maafa with events Saturday (June 28) and July 5, commemorating the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Maafa is Kiswahili for “great tragedy,” in reference ...

Alabamians are being warned by the Better Business Bureau and local police departments about fake traffic ticket scams targeting residents through text messages. Centry Church in Pike Road is teaming ...

Maafa Commemoration Ifaseyi Sable Bamigbala Apetebi, a Yoruba priestess, speaks to a crowd gathered at Congo Square Saturday morning, July 5, for Maafa, a program presented by the Ashe'Cultural Arts ...