2020 investigation by The New Yorker.
“It ultimately will be a huge un-
dertaking,” says Angela Thorpe, who
testified in support of the bill before a
House hearing in May 2019. In her po-
sition as director of North Carolina’s
African American Heritage Commiss-
ion , Thorpe constantly fields requests
for help maintaining abandoned burial
grounds. “I think that this work has
the opportunity to build and heal com-
munities in ways that I’ve never seen
before,” she says. The issue represents
a clear way to push against systems of
racism and oppression, she adds, and
can help preserve cultural traditions.
In her state, that includes the coastal
Gullah Geechee practice of covering
graves with shells, a symbol of the
water that brought them to the South-
eastern US and the hope that it would
bring them back to Africa in death.
“Of course a bill to protect Afri-
can American cemeteries is a good
thing,” William and Mary anthropol-
ogist Blakey says, but he thinks more
is required. “What we need is the
empowerment of descendant commu-
nities.” He notes that the legislation
isn’t as ambitious as the 1990 Native
American Graves Protection and Re-
patriation Act, which recognized
Indigenous tribes’ rights to determine
what happens to human remains and
sacred objects found in excavations
and held in museum collections.
A few weeks after the Juneteenth
cere mony, RISE and its partners
sought an injunction to block the facil-
ity’s construction while court battles
over permits await decisions. Formosa
agreed to delay work, at least near
the Buena Vista cemetery and other
possible graves, until February 2021.
Gov. Edwards has said he thinks the
company will prevail, but Lavigne
considers the pause a small but signifi-
cant victory. Though she doesn’t know
what the future holds for the ceme-
tery, she recalls how on that hot June
day, she felt deep happiness standing
at the site—“like the ancestors were
rejoicing that we did this, that we found
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