‘The Burial’ Highlights The History Of Black Burial Grounds

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By Lynnette Nicholas ·Updated November 6, 2023

“It’s like taking one history, and putting it right on top of another, like taking one man’s legacy and putting it right on top of another, until one day, it gets pushed down so deep, buried so deep, can’t no one ever find it no more,” Ruben Soames in The Burial (2023) by Maggie Betts.

Under the direction of Maggie Betts, The Burial, a

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