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The restoration of Houston's Olivewood Cemetery provides a potential blueprint for Memphis's Black cemeteries.

The child’s headstone is inscribed simply “Nannie,” marking the grave of a 7-year-old girl who died May 18, 1856. She is buried in one

In Georgia, Texas and Washington, D.C., three Black women are working to preserve desecrated African American burial grounds and the stories they hold.

Descendants of Olivewood Cemetery are fighting to stop a new development in the Heights area that they said could end up disturbing the unmarked graves of infants.

Olivewood is Houston’s oldest incorporated African American cemetery, having been established in 1875, just 10 years after emancipation.

These hallowed grounds are in danger of being forgotten, desecrated, and destroyed—here are the people trying to save them.

The Descendants of Olivewood received a $50,000 grant earlier this year from the National Trust for Historic Places, which awarded the money so a drainage study could be conducted at

Olivewood Cemetery is the resting ground of many Houston trailblazers and an important piece of the history of the African diaspora.