NEW BRUNSWICK – One hundred sixty-five local Black men, women and children who were rounded up and sold to southern plantation owners more than 200 years ago are coming home.

Thanks to a nonprofit organization run by a handful of volunteers, plans are moving forward to create a memorial garden to remember the lives and legacies of those who were illegally kidnapped and forced into a lifetime of slavery.

The Lost Souls Public Memorial Project will host its eighth annual Homage to Our Ancestors program on Saturday at noon at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, where it will unveil a concept rendering created by a landscape architect representing the first phase of the project.

Lost Souls, which is supported by local and county officials as well as the New Brunswick Area NACCP, is de

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