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Statewide managing editor, The Texas Newsroom, a public radio collab with @NPR & TX stations. Before: @texastribune, @statesman, @reuters. @UNC grad.
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New podcast explores how a cemetery forced a ‘sweet’ city to confront its history

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By Corrie MacLaggan Verified
| Texas Standard Verified
When a construction team was building a new school in 2018 in Sugar Land, in the Houston area, workers discovered something shocking: An unmarked cemetery containing 95 bodies. The graves dated to the years after the Civil War, when hundreds of Black men were sent to convict labor camps in the area to harvest sugarcane. Activists had warned local and state officials that remains were buried in and around Sugar Land. But officials weren’t looking for them.
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New podcast explores how a cemetery forced a "sweet" city to confront its history

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By Corrie MacLaggan Verified
| KERA News (Dallas, TX) Verified
By Corrie MacLaggan, The Texas Newsroom When a construction team was building a new school in 2018 in Sugar Land, in the Houston area, workers discovered something shocking: An unmarked cemetery containing 95 bodies. The graves dated to the years after the Civil War, when hundreds of Black men were sent to convict labor camps in the area to harvest sugarcane. Activists had warned local and state officials that remains were buried in and around Sugar Land. But officials weren't looking for them.
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New podcast explores how a cemetery forced a 'sweet' city to confront its history

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By Corrie MacLaggan Verified
| KUT-FM (Austin, TX) Verified
By Corrie MacLaggan, The Texas Newsroom When a construction team was building a new school in 2018 in Sugar Land, in the Houston area, workers discovered something shocking: An unmarked cemetery containing 95 bodies. The graves dated to the years after the Civil War, when hundreds of Black men were sent to convict labor camps in the area to harvest sugarcane. Activists had warned local and state officials that remains were buried in and around Sugar Land. But officials weren’t looking for them.
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