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It all begins with a good story at the Living Heritage Institute | June 13, 2024
'A dignity that all Americans should have': The fight to save historically Black cemeteries | June 9, 2024
Sites of resistance: threatened African burial grounds around the world | March 28, 2024
How the US’s Black cemeteries are being made visible once more | March 14, 2024
Florida residents are in court over a cemetery's future | March 1, 2024
Efforts to preserve dozens of African American cemeteries continue in Alachua County | February 12, 2024
Volunteers uses historic records to connect families | February 12, 2024
He unearthed his roots. Now he digs up lost stories of enslaved people. | February 6, 2024
America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2023— Pierce Chapel African Cemetery, Midland, Georgia | May 9, 2023
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Abandoned African American Cemeteries Grant Program
Research institutions, colleges and universities, and qualified nonprofit organizations, may now apply for grants up to $50,000 for conducting genealogical and historical research needed to identify and contact the relatives and descendants of persons buried in abandoned African American cemeteries. Local governments and qualified nonprofit organizations may also apply for grants up to $50,000 for the purposes of repairing, restoring, and maintaining abandoned African-American cemeteries.
Florida Legislature approves bill to help restore historic Black cemeteries. | May 4, 2023
Groveland sets example as lawmakers near vote on office to aid abandoned Black cemeteries. | April 4, 2023
Abandoned cemetery task force bill clears governors desk | June 5, 2021
Florida bill to help protect Black cemeteries heads to DeSantis | May 4, 2021
Bill to establish task force for abandoned cemeteries clears first House committee | March 24, 2021
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The City of Tampa honors research efforts of the African American Burial Ground Project | February 22, 2024
Research project to recover, engage public on lost history of African American burial grounds in Tampa Bay | December 21, 2020
Preserving African American history through burial ground research | January 31, 2021
St. Pete’s Black burial grounds erased from history | May 27, 2021
Are there graves still buried on the Tropicana Field property? | April 20, 2021