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Lexington to survey city cemetery where enslaved people were buried anonymously

There are no city records as to who put the memorial to enslaved people in Lexington's city cemetery, Mayor Jason Hayes says. The wreath was placed by the Lexington Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

There are no city records as to who put the memorial to enslaved people in Lexington's city cemetery, Mayor Jason Hayes says. The wreath was placed by the Lexington Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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