LOWER MANHATTAN (PIX11) — One of the oldest and largest African American burial grounds in the United States has been closed just days before Juneteenth. The visitor center and outdoor memorial for ...

EAST HARLEM, N.Y. (PIX11) — The area around East 126th Street at 2nd Avenue in East Harlem has been known as an African burial ground for enslaved and free people. A group has been working for more ...

Many New Yorkers can cite chapter and verse about the African Burial Ground National Monument in downtown Manhattan near City Hall, but only a few know about the burial grounds and segregated Black ...

An African American burial ground project in South Carolina is just one subject in Caroline Gutman’s search for a history hiding in plain sight. By Caroline Gutman Caroline Gutman’s photographs of an ...

The National Park Service and the African Burial Ground National Monument, the final resting place for 15,000 free and enslaved New Yorkers, have reached a deal that will allow the site to channel ...

M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) It took two centuries for the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan to be remembered, when 18th century bones were ...

New York launched its commission to study African American history in the state over 400 years. In the suburban village of Irvington, there's evidence compiled by local researchers that a posh ...

NEW YORK — Born in Austria, Tillie Kupferschmidt, 17, had lived in the United States for all of three years before perishing in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 1911. Two days later, ...

For years, Native American tribes in New York have pushed for greater protections of ancient graves found on private land. Now the Legislature has enacted them. By Jay Root For years, New York law ...

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