A NC church is hosting a Juneteenth memorial service for enslaved and 20 buried in unmarked plots in Huntersville, NC cemetery.

By Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez / The Charlotte Observer

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I would encourage folks to come out and Appreciate the quiet Beauty I think we Were talking earlier about how little Bits of humanity kind of show through in A in a cruel system and I think the Monument itself kind of speaks to that We're not sure how many people are Buried here but at some point in 1928 There was a family of white folks that Felt compelled to put a monument up to a Family of black folks And that That's something and I I think the the Reverence of the whole Space Allows us to come into the moment to Dignify these who have been here And to allow them to live In spirit that we can then continue to Understand our past and never let us Forget so we don't repeat it Never let us forget so we don't repeat It

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