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February 17, 2010
VIDEO - Investigators said someone knocked over and smashed nearly every head stone in the historically African-American cemetery...
December 20, 2009
VIDEO - In light of the discovery of raided graves at the cemetery where he was buried, theGrio looks back…
December 17, 2009
After recently launching "May WE Rest in Peace", a non-profit organization to give back to the city of Detroit, music…
November 20, 2009
ALSIP, Illinois (AP) - A historic black cemetery, shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves…
September 3, 2009
From our friends at essence.com: After 54 years, the story of Emmett Till is still making news. Till was just
August 2, 2009
Harold Lucas was raised with the stories about his grandparents, who rode segregated railroad cars from Missouri to Chicago in…
July 29, 2009
VIDEO - Three members of the famed post-Civil War-era Buffalo Soldiers, whose remains were disinterred during a federal grave-looting investigation…
July 15, 2009
The owner of a suburban Chicago cemetery that's been closed by authorities amid allegations that workers dug up bodies and…
July 11, 2009
In suburban Chicago a scandal at an historic black cemetery got worse a day after four cemetery workers were charged
July 9, 2009
Four workers were charged Thursday in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic…
July 9, 2009
Families whose loved ones were buried at Chicago’s Burr Oak Cemetery are flocking to the grounds to find out if