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Funding is included in the recently signed Consolidated Appropriations Act to help restore and protect Black cemeteries. First introduced in 2019, the African American Burial Grounds Preservation Act came to be because of Cincinnati's Union Baptist Cemetery in Price Hill.
Congress established a new, national program to preserve African American burial sites. It will provide funding for historic Black cemeteries including two historic cemeteries in Cincinnati.