PALMETTO, Fla. (WFLA) — The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a case of gravesite vandalism after numerous burial plots were damaged. Deputies said they found 17 gravesites at the Old ...

A nonprofit dedicated to preserving historic cemeteries is raising concerns about a cemetery located near a massive data ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The Lexington Police Department needs the public’s help in solving a recent vandalism case at Lexington Cemetery. The vandalism occurred overnight, June 9-10, when unknown ...

A Black Lives Matter sign has been damaged again at a church in Odenton, Maryland. Anne Arundel County Police released a photo of the person suspected of vandalizing both the Black Lives Matter sign ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A historic cemetery in Durkeeville holds far more of Jacksonville’s dead than anyone previously knew. Researchers working with the city have confirmed that 1,200 people are buried ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — This week, the Black Cemeteries Network is kicking off its first convention in Tampa Bay. The conversations, research, and legislation surrounding the erased African American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Activist Willie Hudspeth reflects at St. John's Cemetery on Saturday, May 9, 2026 in Denton, Texas. “I'm just sitting here on this ...

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — A historically black cemetery in Clay County was almost left forgotten. That was until a local group decided to step in and change that Many of the original grave sites have been ...

In the late 1890s, on a 1.5-acre patch of land in northern Denton County, formerly enslaved Black residents of Pilot Point laid their dead to rest in a cemetery they had helped consecrate as part of ...

Visitors to the Historic Coloured Cemetery on Nantucket sometimes ask for directions to a monument for a man buried there: Captain Absalom Boston, a trailblazing Black whaling captain who died in 1855 ...

The Town of Rye marked Juneteenth on Sunday with a meaningful effort to preserve local Black history. The event brought residents and officials together for a restoration project at the African ...