LOWER MANHATTAN (PIX11) — One of the oldest and largest African American burial grounds in the United States has been closed just days before Juneteenth. The visitor center and outdoor memorial for ...
An African American burial ground project in South Carolina is just one subject in Caroline Gutman’s search for a history hiding in plain sight. By Caroline Gutman Caroline Gutman’s photographs of an ...
EAST HARLEM, N.Y. (PIX11) — The area around East 126th Street at 2nd Avenue in East Harlem has been known as an African burial ground for enslaved and free people. A group has been working for more ...
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 ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- One New York City Council member is looking to ensure that African American burial grounds across the five boroughs are preserved in perpetuity to honor those buried there and ...
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The haunting history of the Jewish burial society that cares for NYC’s lost and forgotten
NEW YORK — Born in Austria, Tillie Kupferschmidt, 17, had lived in the United States for all of three years before perishing in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 1911. Two days later, ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Blakey, anthropology and American studies professor at the College of William & Mary, about the African... The Story Of A Memorial: The African Burial Ground In ...
M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) It took two centuries for the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan to be remembered, when 18th century bones were ...
A second family is now suing a New York City funeral home company for what they call an unforgivable mix-up -- the wrong body being shipped out of the country for burial. It was a shocking discovery ...
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