Billboards towering over an African-American cemetery in suburban St. Louis desecrate the memory of the people buried there, a volunteer who tends to the facility claims in a lawsuit seeking their removal. Wanda Brandon's lawsuit seeks an injunction that would require removal of the six lighted billboards that stand on thick metal poles high above Washington Park Cemetery in Berkeley, Missouri, where the cemetery abuts Interstate 70. "The billboards disrupt the peace, beauty, serenity and noncommercial nature of the cemetery. They defile and divest the cemetery of its sacred nature," the lawsuit said. Some are among overgrown weeds and brush; others sit in a swampy area of tall grass almost directly beneath the towering billboards.

Source: Fox News April 23, 2019 21:11 UTC