We stepped off the path behind a well-kept church cemetery and into the woods—where a lost African American burial ground has ...
Deep in rural Georgia, we visit a forgotten African American cemetery that isn’t even listed online—yet some burials here ...
Cemeteries are among the quietest places we visit, yet they speak more loudly than many crowded rooms. Beneath weathered stones and iron gates lies a layered record of human life, ...
The cemetery housed boys who were detained at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children. Deep in Prince George’s County, Maryland, lies a wooded area that holds a forgotten history ...
Gone but not Forgotten” showcases a decade of one woman’s work of locating and protecting endangered Black cemeteries. Debbie Martin, also known as “the Cemetery Lady” has documented the names and ...
JACKSONVILLE — Tucked behind thick brush and aging trees, Daugherty Cemetery in Jacksonville — once nearly forgotten — has now been officially recognized with a Historic Texas Cemetery designation by ...
It was a very special Veterans Day for families with loved ones laid to rest in a once-forgotten cemetery at St. Nicolas Bethel Baptist Church in Spring Park. Just three years ago, the graves of nine ...
Op-ed: From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, reveals the long pattern of Black Americans ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Overgrown and forgotten, the Spires Brown Roberts Cemetery lies hidden in thick brush off West 33rd and Spires streets in Jacksonville. Neighbors say the neglected site, which ...
For more than 100 years, three cemeteries in West Coconut Grove have been the final resting place for the men and women prominent in building and leading what had long been one of South Florida’s most ...
SNOW HILL — This Memorial Day weekend will mark the first time that some people who come to Taylor-Swinson Cemetery to pay their respects will be able to see their ancestors’ names set in stone. A ...