A sign marks the location of a recently rediscovered African burial ground in Kingston, New York, Aug. 5, 2024. The cemetery was largely forgotten, with parts of it covered by a lumberyard by 1880.

Under state law, to repurpose a cemetery you must exhume the bodies and bury them elsewhere. "And none of that was ever done," Lascurain's attorney told CBS News New York back in 1998.

Burials continued through about 1878, more than 50 years after New York fully abolished slavery. Researchers say people were buried with their feet to the east, so when they rise on Judgment Day ...

News A centuries-old cemetery for people who were enslaved is reclaimed in New York Published: Aug. 30, 2024, 3:30 p.m.

Ferncliff Cemetery has found a new way to honor Navy Seaman First Class James Richard “Dick” Ward, 20, the first Clark County resident killed in World War II.

A centuries-old cemetery for people who were enslaved is reclaimed in New York Students work at the site of an African burial ground, backfilling a hole they had dug, in Kingston, N.Y.