Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of ...
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 ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — SUNY New Paltz anthropology students involved in a recent archaeological dig at the Pine Street African Burial Ground showcased their findings — from cultural artifacts to human ...
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Rep. Dan Goldman said Monday that he plans to reintroduce long-stalled legislation to build a museum at the Colonial-era African Burial Ground near Foley Square in lower Manhattan, a site that is ...
Performers at the Harlem African Burial Ground Commemoration Ceremony in June 2024 that kicked off the second phase of archeological work (photo by Thomas Oh) For two centuries, from the mid-1600s to ...
WNYC's Community Partnerships Desk regularly teams up with the nonprofit Street Lab to highlight stories from neighborhoods across New York City. We recently set up shop at GrowHouse Community Design ...
My tour group descended slightly as we passed steel barricades and sidestepped retractable bollards that keep traffic out of this quiet stretch of Lower Manhattan. Elk St. has a somber feel to it, ...
The sound of free flowing water rushing with stories, telling the history of 36 lives. That living history lesson igniting passion within La'Sheia Oubre. "When I got out of the car today the first ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Community members and faith leaders gather for a reinterment ceremony of 36 African ancestors in Charleston, S.C., on May 4, 2019.