TAYLOR — On a recent gray day with a cold wind blowing, Ernest Rector looked over a mostly empty plot of land dotted with a few headstones at the Taylor City Cemetery. The 96-year-old pointed to the ...

City officials expect the Lafayette Cemetery to soon bear a new memorial plaque that will honor the individuals buried in unmarked graves. At the Tuesday evening Lafayette City Council meeting, Deputy ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - A report presented to the Tallahassee City Commission in May of 2021 lays out a respectful way to mark the graves of enslaved people. The report included a small walking ...

After more than a decade, an unusual program to place markers on long-forgotten graves of 686 infants and adults in the former “poor lot” of Concord’s huge Blossom Hill Cemetery, the resting place of ...

A monument has been erected to honor about 450 Black people buried in unmarked graves at the Taylor City Cemetery. Ricardo B. Brazziell, a devoted husband, father of three, and seasoned staff ...

WATSONTOWN, Pa. — Susquehanna University earth and environmental science professor Dr. Ahmed Lachhab and student Jasmine Aguirre are busy this summer working on a research project. However, this isn't ...

The Cheltenham Youth Detention Center in Prince George's County today. (Photo by William J. Ford/Maryland Matters) The discovery recently of more than 150 unmarked graves at a juvenile detention ...

HERE AT THE TOP OF THIS HILL, AT THE BACK OF THE CROWNSVILLE HOSPITAL PROPERTY, ARE 1700 UNMARKED GRAVES OF THE PATIENTS WHO DIED HERE. BUT NOW, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL IS A MEMORIAL TO REMEMBER ...

PHILADELPHIA — The cemetery told John DiSanto where Tyrone Everett was buried, but he still could not find a gravestone for the North Philadelphia boxer who was murdered in 1977 by his girlfriend a ...

LAGRANGE, Ga. (WRBL) — Black History Month often highlights trailblazers and well-known figures, but in LaGrange, one historic cemetery is reminding visitors that history also belongs to those whose ...