‘Cruelly erased’: Lawmakers vow to find, preserve forgotten Black gravesites in Florida

‘There may be over 3,000 abandoned African American cemeteries,’ Sen. Janet Cruz says Fresh Take Florida The state senator who proposed a bill to catalog and restore abandoned African American cemeteries across Florida said she is disappointed the legislation died in the just-ended session at the Capitol but isn’t […]

(L-R): State Rep. Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa; and Sen. Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, are update following the first meeting of the Task Force on Abandoned African American Cemeteries at Mission San Luis on July 20,2021. The two co-sponsored legislation leading to the creation of the task force.

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