Taft residents upset with cemetery management - KRIS 6 News Corpus Christi
WEBMar 11, 2024 — 6 Investigates spoke with dozens of concerned Taft residents about the cemetery, and while some claims couldn't be proved, others were more apparent, like the burial of bodies in plots that were...
Florida residents are in court over a cemetery's future : NPR
WEBMar 1, 2024 — The cemetery is run by a nonprofit board of four Trustees who were behind the 2020 sale. The board's validity is being disputed in court by a new board, elected in 2022 by community members and...
Exclusive: Family says Long Island cemetery sold last grave ... - CBS News
WEBFeb 3, 2024 — Sheila Carletto -- a beloved wife, mother of four and grandmother -- was buried weeks ago at Beth Moses Cemetery in West Babylon, but not in their family plot. They were informed someone else had...
A fourth Black cemetery is unearthed in Florida : NPR
WEBDec 20, 2021 — An unmarked African American cemetery with hundreds of graves has been found at the site of a downtown office building in Clearwater, Fla. It's at least the fourth abandoned African American...
The growing movement to save Black cemeteries - NBC News
WEBFeb 10, 2022 — NBCBLK. The growing movement to save Black cemeteries. Historical Black burial sites are a reminder of the ways Black humanity is devalued in life and in death. Now, a movement for redress and...
Climate change effects in cemeteries: Floating caskets, missing …
WEBSep 14, 2023 — Thousands of graves have been disturbed in cemeteries across the nation in the past 30 years. Flooding, erosion and other climate-related weather disasters have been reported in at least 21 states...
As threats to Black cemeteries persist, a ... - Associated Press News
WEBMar 14, 2024 — The cemetery holds the remains of 10,000 Black Americans, including some of Miami’s most influential figures including Miami’s first Black millionaire, D.A. Dorsey, and Gwen Cherry, Florida’s first Black woman to serve in Florida’s legislature.
Expert argues for the preservation of historically Black cemeteries
WEBJun 9, 2024 — Preserving historically Black cemeteries in the U.S. is about more than restoration, but provides a chance to repair injustices and shape equitable futures, experts say. A cemetery is the last...
Removal of Arlington Cemetery Confederate statue may proceed ... - CNN
WEBDec 20, 2023 — CNN — The removal of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia may proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, after finding groups who tried to halt it failed to prove...
Judge Clears the Way for Confederate Memorial at Arlington to …
WEBDec 19, 2023 — A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for the removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery, just one day after a temporary restraining order had halted the plan...