Indiana's 1st black physician is honored with headstone
theGRIO REPORT - Indiana's first African-American physician is being honored on Tuesday more than a century after his death with a commemorative grave marker...
Forgotten graves at U.Va likely belonged to black slaves
theGRIO REPORT - Although the graves have not been officially confirmed as holding the remains of black slaves, the university has no plans to excavate or uncover the graves to assure respect for the remains according to UVA Today...
Eazy E's son: Dad's grave was littered with garbage
Eric Wright Jr., Eazy E's son, found his fathers grave littered with cigarettes, beer cans and marijuana butts....
First black Heisman winner's gravesite robbed
ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) - Officials at an upstate New York cemetery say someone keeps stealing a football from the grave of Ernie Davis, a college star who was the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy...
Armed guards watching Whitney Houston's grave
According to several reports, there are armed guards keeping watch over Whitney Houston's grave...
Groups claim state failed to protect Va. slave burial site
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A ex-Richmond city councilman is among those asking that Virginia officials excavate part of a university parking lot to determine ...
Burr Oak Cemetery reopens four months after scandal
ALSIP, Illinois (AP) - A historic black cemetery, shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots, is open again...
Ghost doctor operates from the grave
VIDEO - As we approach Halloween, October becomes a month filled with ghost stories. Some of those stories are coming from people who have visited the Black American West Museum in Denver...
Former slave's family grave is restored
VIDEO - An expert is helping to return one of Connecticut's best-known former slave's family gravesite to its proper place.
Atlanta lawsuit reveals remnants of forgotten black community
ATLANTA (AP) - In a city where black history usually calls to mind the lives of civil rights leaders, a lawsuit is bringing attention to a less known facet of that history...
