Texas woman resurrects long lost cemetery
VIDEO - Sue Spears noticed some grave markers near her Austin, Texas home 15 years ago when she used to see children play in a dirty overgrown lot near a school...
22 black war veteran graves to be restored
theGRIO REPORT - A local New York organization is planning a restoration project for nearly two dozen African American war veteran graves in the Town of Rye...
Inmates help restore oldest black cemetery in Baltimore
The Mount Auburn cemetery, known as 'The City of Dead for Colored People', was founded in 1872, back when blacks could not be interred next to whites...
Calif. headstones marked with racial slur replaced
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Workers on Tuesday began installing new markers at a public cemetery near Sacramento where relocated Gold Rush-era gravestones had been marked with the N-word...
Ex-director gets 12 yrs for stealing from Emmett Till cemetery
CHICAGO (AP) - Till's grave wasn't harmed, but his original glass-topped casket was discovered in a garbage-strewn storage shed during the investigation...
Memphis woman confronts cemetery over location of child
VIDEO - A grieving Memphis mother has been left to wonder what a cemetery did with her daughter's body...
Calif. county to replace headstones bearing n-word
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) - The graves hold pioneers from a Gold Rush settlement called Negro Hill...
Jonestown memorial spat spills into court
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A California judge has denied a request to immediately block further construction and use of a recently installed memorial for the more than 900 victims of the 1978 Jonestown traged...
Activists want n-word gone from Calif. graves
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. (AP) - The trouble is getting someone to take responsibility for fixing an error committed during an era when the N-word was commonly used...
Tuskegee Airman buried at Arlington Cemetery
WASHINGTON - Col. Spann Watson, one of the famed black flyers who fought in WWII, joins the ranks of the country's fallen at Arlington National Cemetery...
