A Black Family In North Carolina Wants People To Stop Illegally Dumping In Their Family Cemetery

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Downtown Fayetteville in Cumberland County, North Carolina By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 20, 2024

The Hodges are one of the first Black families to own land in Cumberland County, NC, and they want people to stop illegally dumping in their family cemetery, “where both veterans and Black people born during slavery are buried,” ABC11 reports.

The Hodges family acquired this land in the early 1900s, and has been using this site to

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