In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. They had lain hidden for some 200 years ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A nationally recognized scholar on burial ground preservation will speak in Charleston on Monday during a free community lecture at Mother Emanuel AME Church. Dr. Michael ...

(The Conversation) — The movement to protect the long-obscured sites allows communities to reckon with painful histories through healing, remembrance and ancestral connection. (The Conversation) — In ...