Black-owned funeral homes serve as vital cultural institutions. Among the first businesses established by African Americans after slavery, these family-owned establishments have maintained important ...

CARRY ME HOME: Karla FC Holloway says her new book about African-American funeral practices must have been in her blood. But she never thought it would become a piece of her broken heart. She has ...

"From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or "home-going" ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely ...

While nurses, doctors, paramedics and other health care providers were rightfully praised for their frontline service during the COVID-19 pandemic, funeral directors became the forgotten heroes. Not ...