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Press Releases

 
08/07/2006 African Burial Ground Moves Forward With Selection of Interpretive Center Designers
 
10/03/2005 Ceremonial Groundbreaking Held for African Burial Ground Memorial:
National Park Service Releases Management Recommendations for Site

 
09/28/2005 Ceremonial Groundbreaking for African Burial Ground
Exterior Memorial Conducted at National Landmark Site

 
04/29/2005 Rodney Léon Tapped To Design National Historic Landmark
Winner to Create Memorial for 17th, 18th-Century Africans

 
01/21/2004 Karl H. Reichelt Named Acting GSA Chief of Staff
 
10/04/2003 A Statement from the US General Services Administration
 
09/29/2003

GSA's ABG Reinterment Plans Endorsed
Agency Earns Praise for Progress on Historic Project

 

09/22/2003 Schomburg Center Sets Schedule for “Rites of Ancestral Return”
 
09/10/2003 Schomburg Center: Preparation To Begin For October Reburial Ceremonies At African Burial Ground
 
05/22/2003 Forward Momentum in African Burial Ground Project 
 
02/26/2003 Significant Progress With New York African Burial Ground Project
 
   

Press Coverage

 
Amsterdam News Architect for African Burial Ground memorial picked
05/04/2005 Amsterdam News

 
New York Daily News Architect picked for Burial Ground
04/30/2005 New York Daily News

 
The New York Times Design Is Picked for African Burial Ground, and the Heckling Begins
04/30/2005 The New York Times

 
NY1 News Memorial Design Chosen For African Burial Ground
04/29/2005 NY1 News

 
New York Newsday

Kwanzaa Celebrated At African Burial Ground
12/26/2003 New York Newsday

 

Staten Island Advance

Black Journalists Hail Advance Staffers
Columnist takes first place and photographer 2nd place honors in competition
11/11/2003 Staten Island Advance

 

New York Daily News

City Beat: She Digs Her Work
Archeologist has the scoop on city's past
10/20/2003 New York Daily News

 

Bayside Times

Boro Leaders Bury Historic African Remains in Flushing
10/09/2003 Bayside Times, NY

 

San Francisco Bay View

African Slaves Re-Buried Ceremonially After Burial Ground
Accidentally Discovered Near Wall Street
10/09/2003 San Francisco Bay View, CA

 

Taipei Times

Remains of Slaves Reinterred in Downtown Manhattan
10/06/2003 Taipei Times, Taiwan

 

New York Post

Last Rites for Slave Remains
10/05/2003 New York Post

 

New York Daily News

A long 'look to the past'
10/05/2003, New York Daily News

 

WCPO Ohio

Re-Interment Ceremony For Colonial-Era Slaves
10/05/2003 WCPO, Cincinnati, OH

 

Voice of America News

Ceremony Marks Return of African Slaves' Remains to New York
10/04/2003 Voice of America News

 

The New York Times

Honoring the Slaves of New York
10/04/2003 The New York Times

 

BBC News

New York Slaves Finally Laid to Rest
10/04/2003 BBC News, UK

 

The New Jersey Journal

Solemn Salute to Reburial Gives Lesson in History
10/04/2003 New Jersey Journal, NJ

 

New York Newsday

Thousands Help Re-Inter Remains
10/04/2003 New York Newsday

 

African Reburial Ceremony Will Close Controversial Chapter
10/03/2003 WNBC News

 

ABC 7 Online

Remains From Colonial-Era Black Americans To Be Marched To African Burial
Ground In Lower Manhattan
10/03/2003 WABC News

 

NPR

Re-Burial Ceremony for 400 Africans in Manhattan
10/03/2003 National Public Radio

 

NY1 News

After More Than 200 Years, Slave Remains To Be Honored In Vigil
10/03/2003 NY1 News

 

1010 WINS

Ceremony Marks Return of African Remains
10/03/2003 1010 WINS

 

The New York Times

Another Burial for 400 Colonial-Era Blacks
10/02/2003 The New York Times

 
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The New York Times

Unearthing the Past, Then Burying It With Respect
10/02/2003 The New York Times - Public Lives

 
Corey Kilgannon interviews Dr. Sherrill D. Wilson, Director of the
Office of Public Education and Interpretation (OPEI)
for the African Burial Ground Project
 

NY1 News Slave Remains To Be Reinterred In Lower Manhattan
10/02/2003 NY1 News

 
News Journal

Remains of Slaves Honored in Delaware
10/02/2003 The News Journal, DE

 

The Intelligencer

African Burial Site Remains Make Final Journey
10/02/2003, Doylestown Intelligencer, PA

 

Colonial Era Africans Honored Before Remains Return to N.Y.
1991 Discovery a Treasure Trove for Howard U. Researchers
10/01/2003 Washington Post

 

New York Newsday

NY African burial site remains make final journey
10/01/2003 New York Newsday

 

WBAL-TV Baltimore

African Slaves' Remains Travel Through Baltimore
09/30/2003 WBAL-TV, Baltimore, MD

 

News Journal

'Last Stop' a Window into History
09/26/2003 The News Journal, DE

 

NEPA News

African Reinterment Ceremony Planned in Colonial New York Graveyard
09/23/2003 NEPA News, PA

 

NY1 News

Remains Of Slaves To Be Returned To Burial Site In Lower Manhattan
09/22/2003, NY1 News

 

New York Newsday

Long Road to a Final Rest, Ellis Henican
09/17/2003, New York Newsday

 

New York Daily News

The city has another Ground Zero, Howard Dodson
08/04/2003, New York Daily News
 

NPR

Africans Unearthed at NYC Gravesite to be Re-Buried
08/01/2003 National Public Radio