The struggle continues. Eight months after City Manager Grant Goings announced at a council meeting that he would soon introduce his recommendations for Vick Cemetery, and five months after our meeting with the Mayor and Councilmember Gillettia Morgan to discuss Lane Street Project’s vision for next steps, the City has not made one move toward redemption.
ABC-11’s report on Vick aired today and reminds us all of the stakes here. Can’t stop, won’t stop.
View reporter Akilah Davis’ report here:
https://abc11.com/black-cemetery-vick-destroyed-missing-headstones/14501270/
My thanks to Levolyre Farmer Pitt for sharing her thoughts about the state of Vick Cemetery and to Akilah Davis for her dogged pursuit of the truth.
Thank you, M.E. Barnes!
I have sat back and watched you bust your tail, “literally” on this project to bring out the truth, clean up the wrongdoings, debris, and frankly the city council who continue to show blatant disrespect time and time again. Now, I see they said the ground is “unfit for burial”? Kind of late for that to be realized huh?? I don’t see how they could BUILD anything in or ON that site. The area, such as it is would be unstable, due to what’s already in that sacred ground. Shame on all parties involved and KNOW better through all the actions ~undertaken~ Yes, pun intended.
The “unfit for burial” designation came in the late 1950s, and there won’t be any actual buildings on site, but … yeah.
YES!!…. to reporting.