A Fulton County judge has ruled that Piney Grove Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground tucked behind a Buckhead condominium complex, is a public cemetery protected under Georgia law. The ...
Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The legal fight over Piney Grove Cemetery, a historic ...
ATLANTA — A judge has sided with descendants of the members of a historic Black Buckhead community in a battle over preservation of a cemetery that now sits behind a townhome development. At issue was ...
Audrey Collins looks longingly up the hill towards her grandmother’s grave. The pathway to get there is impassible for the 71-year-old, who would need to climb over fallen trees and overgrown vines to ...
More than 300 people are buried less than a mile south of Lenox Square, many of whom are former slaves. In June 2015, one family — retired Atlanta police officer Richard Thomas and his cousins Audrey ...
Under a cloudy sky, veterans and their family and friends gathered Monday at Piney Grove Cemetery to honor fallen members of the U.S. Armed Forces – including almost 60 buried in the historic ...
On a cold, wet November day in Potomac, Maryland Cherisse Milliner visits her ancestors. “My people,” said Milliner as she stood on the site of the Union Wesley Methodist Church cemetery, how hidden ...
The legal fight over Piney Grove Cemetery, a historic African-American burial ground tucked behind a large Buckhead condominium complex, is over. On Monday, a Fulton County Superior Court judge ...