Two WUSA9 News reports on the Ancestors Pavilion, including a preview report of August 14, 2024. See the dedication report of September 7, 2024. 

The Afro American Newspapers on September 23, 2023, ran a story on efforts to preserve Black cemeteries in Washington, DC. 

The Rock Creek Conservancy‘s April 21, 2022, presentation on Race, History, and Rock Creek: Black Cemeteries.

YOUTUBE: Watch the November 16, 2022, D.C. Preservation League presentation, with descendant Andre Ferrell, anthropologist Dr. Shayla Monroe, and historian Mary Belcher.

NBC4 News report on the descendants’ dedication of four National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom historical markers at Walter Pierce Park, which aired December 11, 2021. 

The Washington Post, 5/26/19, opinion piece by Mary Belcher on the need for an “Ancestors Pavilion” at the park.

NPR, 8/3/13: Alison Keyes’ report on Walter Pierce Park and other African American cemetery sites, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=208669071

WJLA-TV, 5/19/13: Richard Reeve’s report on the Walter Pierce Park cemeteries, http://wjla.com/news/local/researchers-try-to-document-save-historic-adams-morgan-cemetery-89023

THE WASHINGTON POST, 5/16/2013, Michael Price’s “Graves Beneath the Park,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/graves-beneath-the-park-in-adams-morgan/2013/05/16/4528db96-bd9c-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html?utm_term=.bb836bb74a55

YOUTUBE: Eddie Becker’s video of the 6/19/2010 “Saying Their Names” event, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEG-7Esz9EY

USA TODAY, 2/16/16: “Lost African American Cemetery Lies Under Park in Washington, D.C.:  http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2016/02/21/80574932/

The Springfield (Ohio) News Sun, 3/17/2017, “Springfield scientist to be recalled in Witt talk,” http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/local-education/stafford-anthropologist-remembers-springfield-colleague/0AlNdnNSvPEDPGRLaFB7lL/

The Society of Black Archaeologists website, http://www.societyofblackarchaeologists.com/

Walter Pierce Park archaeologist Justin Dunnavant’s 2013 University of Florida master’s thesis “African-American Mortality amongst Inhabited Alleys in the District of Columbia: A Case of the Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery,  http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0045595/00001

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NETWORK TO FREEDOM LISTING, MT. PLEASANT PLAINS CEMETERY AT WALTER PIERCE PARK, https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/ntf_member/ntf_member_details.htm?SPFID=5031414&SPFTerritory=NULL&SPFType=NULL&SPFKeywords=NULL