Harambee Kingston, a non-profit organization, wants to turn a long-forgotten burial ground into a memorial honoring the dead. Harambee Kingston, a non-profit organization that has maintained custody ...

Many New Yorkers can cite chapter and verse about the African Burial Ground National Monument in downtown Manhattan near City Hall, but only a few know about the burial grounds and segregated Black ...

(The Root) — Thanks to census records, many African Americans can trace some of their family’s history, but what about those lost during slavery? Fordham University seeks to answer that very question ...

Community members and faith leaders gather for a reinterment ceremony of 36 African ancestors in Charleston, S.C., on May 4, 2019. (Photo by Raquel Fleskes, Ph.D., anthropology professor at Dartmouth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, a ceremony was held at Historic Brattonsville in York County to honor the lives of the enslaved people buried ...

A state grant will go toward building a memorial to pay tribute at a slave burial ground that was discovered last year in Drake Park. Last year, students from P.S. 48 found the burial ground, which ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Bates Cemetery is located behind the Thornhill estate at Faust Park in Chesterfield. Suburban Journals CHESTERFIELD • The ...

A New Milford councilwoman has found historic data suggesting her property may hold a burial plot for slaves. Along a strip of road in New Milford sits the home of Councilwoman Hedy Grant. She is now ...

Shanna Merola was not the first activist to decry the parking lot's proximity to an African burial ground. But her protest produced the first crack in the pavement. Three years ago, Merola, a Virginia ...

On the grounds of the 182-year-old Ihagee Plantation in Alabama, we explore a massive slave cemetery set apart from the white family plot, divided but still overlooking the same land. Hundreds of ...

A Richmond judge today dismissed Sa’ad El-Amin’s lawsuit asking a judge to order the director of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources to explore the boundaries of a burial ground for slaves ...