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Billboards that towered over Black cemetery to come down

by Associated Press
| July 15, 2020 10:03 AM

Billboards towering over an African American cemetery in suburban St. Louis will be removed in the coming months after a settlement was reached in a lawsuit alleging that the signs desecrate the memory of the people buried there.

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