Beer Drinking Bros Versus An Ancient Native and Black Cemetery

A North Virginia coalition is saving the gravesite and setting things straight.

Alisha Tillery
Momentum
Published in
4 min readJun 3, 2021

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A graveyard at sunset in the mist. Image: Getty

Descendants of formerly enslaved Africans and Native Americans in the historic town of Thoroughfare, Va., are fighting for their own history and their own land. It’s land these folks have lived on for at least a century, but…

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Alisha Tillery
Momentum

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