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‘It’s just here’: Descendants look to maintain nearly 200-year-old, unowned family cemetery

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — What happens when a family cemetery doesn’t have enough family members left to properly maintain it? That’s a problem the city of Hendersonville is trying to solve. Old, ...

‘It’s about time’: California creates reparations agency for descendants of enslaved people

New legislation authored by a San Diego lawmaker and just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom creates an agency that will take key ...
EdSource

Slavery descendants to get preference for college admission if bill approved

Legislation that would allow colleges and universities in California to give preference in admission to students who are descendants of slavery is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for final approval ...
The Bismarck Tribune

Sisseton-Wahpeton descendants get payment from federal government in lawsuit

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The federal government has been ordered to settle a decades-old debt with descendants of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe. The ruling stems from a lawsuit over ...
KSTP-TV

Descendants of displaced West Side Flats residents get first chance at housing assistance

For the first time, St. Paul is offering funds to descendants of the West Side Flats, a frequently flooded neighborhood that was bulldozed in the 1960s to make way for a floodwall and an industrial ...