Black Cemetery Loss Is a National Crisis

Our headstones are gone. The land is flooded or infested. Can Black death and afterlife be saved like Black lives?

Morgan Jerkins
ZORA
Published in
7 min readJul 14, 2020

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Photo: NCinDC/Flickr

In the spring of 2018, I traveled to Sapelo Island to conduct research for my forthcoming book, Wandering in Strange Lands. A former plantation, Sapelo Island is the fourth largest barrier island in…

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Morgan Jerkins
ZORA
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Morgan Jerkins is the Senior Editor at ZORA and a New York Times bestselling author. Her debut novel, “Caul Baby,” will be published by Harper in April 2021.