Community members in
are raising serious concerns over what they describe as an abuse of power by city officials following a series of protests surrounding the sale of land believed to contain the graves of formerly enslaved people.
Members of the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC), alongside other local organizations, first mobilized on January 10, when they marched to the Capital City Country Club to protest its role in the sale of roughly 180 acres of land that had previously been considered public property. According to the group, the land includes the Houston Plantation Cemetery Memorial, a historic burial site believed to hold the remains of hundreds of formerly enslaved individuals…