Jayme Jamison, curator at the Polk County ... you’re Black or white you get to defend your home,” Jamison said. Jamison said the county decided to take management of the cemetery to help ...

is completing a master’s thesis on her search for forgotten and abandoned cemeteries for Black residents in Polk County. Waters, 27, undertook her project at a time when researchers and ...

In Georgia, Texas and Washington, D.C., three Black women are working to preserve desecrated African American burial grounds and the stories they hold. Credit...By Brian Palmer For The New York ...