Judge halts sale of apartment complex where Black graves were buried beneath parking lot
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 26, 2021
A community coalition has provided “overwhelming evidence” that a portion of a suburban Washington apartment complex was used as a burial ground for freed Black slaves and their descendants and “many bodies likely still remain on the property,” a Maryland judge ruled Monday in a case by the group to thwart the sale of the property.
The Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission's 
