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Groups claim state failed to protect Va. slave burial site
8:46 AM on 01/06/2010
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A ex-Richmond city councilman is among those asking that Virginia officials excavate part of a university parking lot to determine ...
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Burr Oak Cemetery reopens four months after scandal
10:54 AM on 11/20/2009
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...
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Ghost doctor operates from the grave
9:43 AM on 10/19/2009
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...
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Former slave's family grave is restored
9:02 AM on 09/23/2009
VIDEO - An expert is helping to return one of Connecticut's best-known former slave's family gravesite to its proper place.
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Atlanta lawsuit reveals remnants of forgotten black community
7:00 AM on 09/22/2009
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...
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Blacks lament cemetery scandal's effect on history
9:07 AM on 08/02/2009
Harold Lucas was raised with the stories about his grandparents, who rode segregated railroad cars from Missouri to Chicago in the 1930s and worked tirelessly to raise their family into the middle class...
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Father had to dig his son's grave
10:12 AM on 07/16/2009
A Baton Rouge, Louisiana teen that lost his battle with cancer was laid to rest in a grave dug by his own father.
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Stories of the grave and pool reflect the past
5:10 PM on 07/10/2009
The recent discovery of Emmett Till's original casket in a rusting shed, yards away from where he was laid to rest by his mother, Ms. Mamie Bradley, in 1955 brought back memories of an ugly past. If you recall, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago youth, was brutally lynched by racists...
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Emmett Till's casket found rusting in shack
11:51 AM on 07/10/2009
ALSIP, Illinois (AP) -- While Till's grave site was not disturbed, Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic glass-topped casket rusting in a shack at the cemetery...
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Graves dug up and resold at cemetery where Emmett Till is buried
10:49 AM on 07/09/2009
Families whose loved ones were buried at Chicago's Burr Oak Cemetery are flocking to the grounds to find out if their plots are safe after investigators said as many as 100 graves were dug up so they could be resold. Often called the first African-American cemetery in Chicago, Alsip's Burr...
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Black and white churches acknowledge common history in slavery (video)
11:45 AM on 06/09/2009
VIDEO - Charlotte, NC - Mary Sadler is an 83-year-old African-American who remembers when blacks had to use the other fountain, sit in the back of buses and church. Even in death blacks were buried in the back of the graveyard...
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Arenas: 'I deserve to be punished' for gun prank
WASHINGTON (AP) - Arenas pleaded guilty to a felony gun charge in January and will be sentenced next week. He has been suspended until the end of the season by the NBA...
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