February 16, 2026

African Burial Ground at Historic St. Agnes

The African Burial Ground at Historic St. Agnes is the final resting place of 14 formerly enslaved Africans that worked on the Schuyler Flatts in Menands. We hear from project manager Evelyn Kamili during the Black History Month celebration at Empire State Plaza about the significance of this memorial site. Lennox Apudo reports.

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