A sign marks the location of a recently rediscovered African burial ground in Kingston, New York, August 5, 2024. The cemetery was largely forgotten, with parts of it covered by a lumberyard by 1880.

A historic cemetery for African Americans in Kingston, New York, is being reclaimed as the Pine Street African Burial Ground.

A centuries-old cemetery for people who were enslaved is reclaimed in New York Students work at the site of an African burial ground, backfilling a hole they had dug, in Kingston, N.Y.