Community Event

Mayor Stimpson, under pressure from a number of Baptist pastors and community members protesting Pride events, has dissolved the LGBTQ+ Liaison position he created for Mike Tyner and Natalie Fox ... Read more

Open Table is happy to support the Dill Lecture Series at Dauphin United Way Methodist Church. This year, the featured speaker is the author of our current Adult Education book ... Read more

Community members are invited to participate in a mapping of the historical Plateau Cemetery in Africatown. This event is being organized by Clotilda Descendent and Africatown elder, Anderson Flen. If you are interested in forming a team or participating on a team to walk through a section of the cemetery and cataloging gravesites on an ... Read more

You are invited to attend a special showing of "Rosenwald: Toward A More Perfect Union" as part of Africatown's 2nd Annual Lantern Walk celebration. You can see a trailer for ... Read more

Join the Africatown community in this commemorative event that starts at the Mobile County Training School and processes past several Africatown churches to Plateau Cemetery. "What remarkable people our African ... Read more

Join with other community leaders and activists to plan and strategize for the very important 2024 election year! Stand Up Mobile: A Blueprint for Us is hosting the event at the Dearborn YMCA in downtown Mobile, 321 N. Warren St. on Saturday, November 11 from 10 am to 2 pm. All are welcome.

Rev. William J. Barber, III, President and Sr. Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach is holding an Emergency Community Meeting with the family of Jawan Dallas, a man who was ... Read more

If you missed the first cemetery mapping, here is your chance to participate! The historical archeologist, Dr. Alexandra Jones, is returning for a second training session and gravesite mapping event ... Read more

Join us to continue mapping gravesites at the historic Africatown cemetery in Plateau. Several Open Table members have been trained by archeologist Dr. Alexandra Jones to participate in the project. ... Read more

The public is cordially invited to attend a special presentation during the annual Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival for Africatown Descendants on Wednesday, January 31st, at the Historic Avenue Cultural ... Read more