Project Aims to Honor 22,000 Buried at Forgotten Richmond Burial Site: 'Nothing Is Erased'

Project aims to honor 22,000 buried at forgotten Richmond burial site: 'Nothing is erased'

RICHMOND, Va. A forgotten African burial ground in Richmond is getting renewed attention as architects work with the community to create a memorial for the estimated 22,000 free and enslaved people buried there.The burial site, located beneath an interstate, a billboard and an old gas station, has been neglected for years. Now, the city has tasked Baskerville architectural firm with reimagining the space."This is a site that has been kind of for…

‘This burial site has been desecrated;’ Ancestral remains found at future site of OPG parking lot

Ancestral remains have been found at the site of a planned parking lot next to Ontario Power Generation’s new Oshawa headquarters.

CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS TRIBES DISMAYED OVER UNEARTHING OF BURIAL SITE

Thu 10 July 2025: Four First Nations Indigenous tribes were in a state of grief Wednesday after ancestral remains were uncovered at a site being excavated by workers for a proposed parking lot at a nuclear plant near the Canadian city of Toronto. “This burial site has been desecrated, and our communities are grieving ” the four tribes’ chiefs said in a […]