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Mass burial held for farmers murdered by militants in Nigeria

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Construction workers unearth remains of black laborers buried in segregated graves

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Family horrified by protruding foot as they bury grandfather

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Man sues after he discovers wife's coffin washed away because of flooding

theGRIO REPORT – Richard Lee got a surprising phone call this week. A deacon at his church was calling to let him know that his wife’s coffin was floating about 100 yards away…
/ June 2, 2015
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Pastor refused to bury 93-year-old because she didn't pay tithes while in coma

theGRIO REPORT – Olivia Blair, a 93-year-old Houston woman who recently passed away after months in a coma, was refused burial by a local pastor because she hadn’t attended church while sick or paid recent tithes…
/ November 27, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Nelson Mandela buried in rolling hills of South Africa

QUNU, South Africa (AP) — Anti-apartheid champion Nelson Mandela was buried in his home village on Sunday…
/ December 15, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Conn. slave who died in 1798 called ‘child of God’

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Abused in life and death, an enslaved man known as Mr. Fortune will be honored with an elaborate funeral more than 200 years after he died in Connecticut…
/ September 13, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Florida allows researchers to exhume bodies from secret graveyards

theGRIO REPORT – The notorious Florida reform school Arthur G. Dozier in Florida went under deep scrutiny late last year after 19 grave shafts were discovered on the school’s grounds…
/ August 6, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Mandela family feud over where he should be buried

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As Nelson Mandela remained in critical condition in hospital Friday, a family feud over where the 94-year-old former president should be buried went to the courts…
/ June 28, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

3 months after death, Sherman Hemsley still not buried

theGRIO REPORT – On July 24th Sherman Hemsley passed away, from what the coroner describes as lung cancer. But as of today, ‘The Jeffersons’ star is still not buried…
/ October 31, 2012