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Activist ends hunger strike but says Niagara town still on hook to restore headstones at cemetery

A one-man hunger strike has ended but James Russell's fight continues to get Niagara-on-the-Lake to pay the cost to restore 19 headstones buried at a cemetery for Black settlers.

Toronto man on hunger strike to get Niagara town to restore headstones at cemetery for Black settlers

James Russell has been on a quest to restore 19 headstones buried at the Negro Burial Ground a cemetery in Niagara-on-the-Lake that dates back almost 200 years and have the small Ontario town foot the $59,000 bill.

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