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And now to a story from our student reporters.
Last year, Congress passed a measure to find and protect historic Black cemeteries nationwide, but money to actually do the work hasn’t been allocated. Some aren’t waiting for lawmakers to act. Earlier this summer, dozens of people came together to help preserve a pair of cemeteries in Washington, D.C.
From the “News Hour”‘s Student Reporting Labs journalism training program, Claire Baek reports.
This is where people are laid to rest, and its sacred space. Death reflects life. And the treatment of Black people in life is reflective of treatment of Black people in death.
