Cemetery cleanup can’t wash away painful past
Volunteers Sydni Williams (right) and Ethel Morris scrub tombstones at Zion Christian Cemetery on Saturday, March 9, 2024. The cemetery is in the Curve neighborhood in South Memphis. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The Zion Community Project’s annual cleanup and wreath-laying ceremony at Memphis’ oldest Black graveyard memorializes victims of the 1892 People’s Grocery Lynching.
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Zion Community Project Zion Christian Cemetery People's Grocery LynchingKambui Bomani
Kambui Bomani is the general assignment and breaking news reporter for The Daily Memphian. He is a graduate of Jackson State University’s multimedia journalism program and earned a master’s degree in digital journalism from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. His work has been published in Pro Football Focus, The Southside Stand, HBCU Legends, FanSided and Wisconsin Sports Heroics.
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