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April 30, 2021 Share As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens, Georgia, decades later in 2009, her grandparents’ temporary grave markers were lost, and shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site. But it still felt like home to Davis, and she knew then it was up to her to restore the cemetery. “When I walk through the cemetery, it’s like walking down the old streets of my community,” she said. Similar Black cemeteries are scattered thro...

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO | Associated Press Apr 30, 2021 Apr 30, 2021 CHICAGO (AP) — As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens, Georgia, decades later in 2009, her grandparents' temporary grave markers were lost, and shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site. But it still felt like home to Davis, and she knew then it was up to her to restore the cemetery. "When I walk through the cemetery, it's like walking down the old streets of my com...

CHICAGO (AP) — As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens, Georgia, decades later in 2009, her grandparents' temporary grave markers were lost, and shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site. But it still felt like home to Davis, and she knew then it was up to her to restore the cemetery. “When I walk through the cemetery, it’s like walking down the old streets of my community," she said.

Tony Burroughs, CEO of Chicago’s Center for Black Genealogy, bends to take a photo at the gravesite of his great-grandparents in the Oakridge Cemetery in Hillside. “I realized they were right under my feet,” he says. “I can resurrect my ancestors that are not in history books but they live. They survive….And it’s up to me to tell their stories.” Charles Rex Arbogast / AP As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the graves of their ancestors, letting the flowers in the pots take root. Decades later, when she returned in 2009 to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens, Geo...