In Prince George’s County, Md., an overgrown burial ground with more than 100 unmarked graves rests near the Cheltenham Youth Detention Center. The site is believed to hold the remains of Black ...
WASHINGTON — State Delegates gathered at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery on Tuesday morning to visit a dark part of Maryland’s history. In the woods, just behind the cemetery, headstones appear at random ...
They were locked up in a reform school for Black boys more than 100 years ago. Some were as young as 5 years old. Some were locked up for offenses as minor as vagrancy and for some of them it would be ...