The teachers took the school’s three fifth-grade classes to the Wall Street Pier for the ceremony marking the return of the African’s remains to New York...
THE GRIOT: Historian-Writer Christopher Moore, the author of the Teacher’s Guide for the “Rites of Ancestral Return” project, responds to questions from Baltimore, MD schoolchildren and...
By Herb Boyd The remains of African ancestors were hardly back in the ground from where they had been unearthed in 1991 before the nearby federal...
Dr. Warren R. Perry Early Resistance The first African captives arrived in Dutch New Amsterdam in 1626 from West and Central Africa and later from Caribbean...
Herb Boyd In the early eighteenth century, when the African Burial Ground was still an active cemetery, only a dozen blacks were permitted in funeral processions...