Today we visit the Ihagee Plantation in Alabama, where an old slave burial ground sits separated from the family cemetery—yet it may hold just as many graves - if not more. Most burials here have no ...

Harvard archaeology professor Jason Ur and Johns Hopkins University professor Aja M. Lans are mapping the racial segregation in the Old Burying Ground cemetery to uncover colonial burial trends in New ...

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 ...

On this old Alabama plantation, the family cemetery is only part of the story. Just beside it lies a slave burial ground stretching down a steep sandy hillside, with grave after grave marked only by ...

(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 ...

I'm Michel Martin. This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Just ahead: they wear short shorts and fishnets and they like to hit people for fun. What could it be but roller derby? But first, more on how ...

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 ...

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 ...

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A 92-year-old Ashland woman is working to preserve the Hickory Hill Slave and African American Cemetery, which is rooted in the community’s history. Hanover County shared ...

A U.S. District Court judge will decide whether a federal lawsuit seeking to broaden access and protection for an antebellum ...

YORK, S.C. — For the first time, a ceremony was held at Historic Brattonsville in York County to honor the lives of the enslaved people buried in mostly unmarked graves at the site. Initially, only 46 ...