Before this year, the most recent deed for the Point of Rocks Colored Cemetery was from 1879 — when the cemetery was established. In February of this year, 146 years later, a Maryland Circuit Court ...

GULFPORT — Greater Mount Zion AME Church said it has the true deed to a historic African-American cemetery and will fight for control of the property. That could mean going to court and challenging ...

Denton merchant James A. Smoot donated land off Carroll Boulevard for a cemetery with a sign that now reads the “I.O.O.F. Cemetery, est. 1860.” But there’s no explanation posted there about what the ...

In early December, Mayor Gerard Hudspeth told council members that the deed of the IOOF Cemetery still reads: “You cannot bury Black — or if it makes you feel better, African American — humans in a ...

DENTON, Texas — The City of Denton announced Tuesday that it has removed discriminatory language from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery deed. The language contained in the 1933 deed ...

The mayor of Denton expressed frustration over social media last weekend after a City Council member voted against a measure that would allow legal staff to rewrite the deed of a city-owned cemetery ...