Durham cemetery seeks to give untold stories new life through national recognition
On a roughly 4-acre patch of land, north of downtown Durham, Debra Taylor Gonzalez-Garcia walks through one of Durham's first historically Black cemeteries."I'm gonna show you this, there's a much better example but I don't know if we're going to get to the other side," Gonzalez-Garcia said as she directed me to where a previous revitalization effort took place but was unsuccessful, leaving a cracked headstone in Geer Cemetery.Established in 1877, Geer Cemetery was one of the first historically...
