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The naming of a federal building at the African Burial Ground site in Manhattan for the late New York Congressman Ted Weiss sparked outrage from an elected official and activists as the building was dedicated yesterday.
The opponents want the building renamed to reflect the enslaved and free blacks buried at the 18th century cemetery where remains of 400 people were recently re-interred.
"I'm outraged that the federal government and the General Services Administration are honoring other ethnic groups and they couldn't name this building sitting on the remains of thousands of African people after an African person," said Mandingo Oceola Tshaka, of Bayside, an advocate for preservation of African- American and American Indian burial grounds.
"If Abraham Lincoln's name was up there it still...