After years of delay, remains may be reburied at African burial ground. (noteworthy news).

NEW YORK

A dozen years after the discovery of a Colonial-era burial ground in lower Manhattan, the remains of some of the slaves and free Blacks once buried there may finally be re-interred this fall.

Ceremonies to mark the event are tentatively scheduled for Sept. 29 through Oct. 2, with reburial on the last day, said Kimberly Thomas, spokeswoman for the African Burial Ground Project.

Specifics are still being worked out, she said, but coffins are being sent to Howard University in Washington, D.C., where the remains were studied, to transport them back to New York. The General Services Administration, the federal agency overseeing the project, …