Article 6APQH Toronto man on hunger strike to get Niagara town to restore headstones at cemetery for Black settlers

Toronto man on hunger strike to get Niagara town to restore headstones at cemetery for Black settlers

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Desmond Brown
from CBC | Edmonton News on (#6APQH)
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James Russell has been on a quest to restore 19 headstones buried at the Negro Burial Ground - a cemetery in Niagara-on-the-Lake that dates back almost 200 years - and have the small Ontario town foot the $59,000 bill.

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