Endangered historic places

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A plan a dozen years in the making to preserve the culture of slave descendants in four southeastern states went out for public comment on Wednesday. The plan was developed by the federal Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor Commission and includes recommendations for preserving the culture along the coast reaching from southeastern North […]

ATLANTA (AP) — The ghosts of Auburn Avenue still haunt the storied Atlanta street where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born and black wealth thrived for decades. Today, the street is a shell of its former self, the bustling mix of banks, night clubs, churches, meat markets and funeral homes long gone, replaced […]

Joe Frazier’s Gym, the commercial district of Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood and the Malcolm X-Ella Little Collins House in Boston, where the iconic human rights activist spent some of his formative years, joined the 2012 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places of the Trust for Historic Preservation. Since 1988, the National Trust for […]