2023年11月8日 · The Houston suburb Sugar Land got its name from a business reliant on the forced labor of convicts. But efforts to memorialize those people have stalled. The remains of victims of a brutal system called convict leasing were found on a school construction site.

2023年5月24日 · In 2018, a few months into building a new school in Sugar Land, Texas, construction crews uncovered 95 unmarked graves.

2021年1月8日 · How a white identified city struggles to commemorate the Black lives and deaths that produced its sugar and built its wealth. Sugar Land is a growing, white, politically conservative, suburb of Southwest Houston, Texas.

The Sugar Land podcast is a production of Dot Productions and The Texas Newsroom, a public radio journalism collaboration that includes NPR, KERA in North Texas, Houston Public Media, KUT in Austin, Texas Public Radio in San Antonio and other stations across the state.

2023年6月16日 · The eight-part series looks at the story behind the Sugar Land 95, unmarked graves discovered at a construction site, and the ensuing struggle between officials, activists, researchers and the community over what to do about them.

2023年7月13日 · In May 2022, more than four years after the cemetery containing the Sugar Land 95 was discovered, members of Principal Research Group offered a rare update on their progress and addressed the question on everyone’s minds: Had they identified any living descendants of …

2021年2月24日 · SUGAR LAND, Texas – February marks three years since the first human remains were discovered at the construction site of a new Fort Bend Independent School District school. Over the course of...

2023年6月29日 · The fight of the century is unfolding in Sugar Land. Should the remains of the Sugar Land 95 be moved so construction on Fort Bend ISD's new school could continue as planned? Or should they be reburied where they were found?

2023年7月26日 · In 2018, construction crews made a startling discovery during the initial stages of building a new school in Sugar Land, Texas. Beneath the ground lay 95 unmarked graves, a somber testament to a dark chapter in our nation’s history.

2019年3月6日 · Can Sugar Land confront its painful past in a way that prioritizes justice, equity, and reconciliation? Across the nation, similarly incomplete heritage narratives have erased the history of African Americans and other underrepresented groups—but there are also many efforts to bring the truth to light.