Historic Black cemetery in Portsmouth will now receive city care after years of neglect pilotonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pilotonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Historic Black cemetery in Portsmouth will now receive city care after years of neglect dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Black historians have tried to debunk the myth, but many residents still refuse to attend the city's marquee event because of the supposed connection to slavery.
Portsmouth played a significant role in the dismantling of the Sugar Hill neighborhood. Now, the city wants to right the wrongs of the past by returning the land to the Black families it was taken from. But one of the questions still up for debate is whether returning the land would be helpful at all.
Portsmouth is considering returning land to residents of a historic Black neighborhood Is it a blessing or a burden? dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.