On Juneteenth, Raleigh pays tribute to the often-overlooked U.S. Colored Troops who played a pivotal role in the Union's ...

It's been 10 years since a White supremacist gunned down Black churchgoers in Charleston. The families hope commemoration events spark action.

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On Saturday, a ...

Editors note: Corrections have been made to the original article - KRIS 6 News has since learned that Paula Porter is not the only Black female funeral director. in Corpus Christi. Born and raised ...

where the physical collection of funeral programs is housed in the William A. Miles Center for African and African American Studies. “We come together through the library on every second ...

The city is honoring and celebrating its oldest Black-owned business, the Bynes-Royall Funeral Home, as it remains a crucial part of its Black entrepreneurial sector. Bynes-Royall is Savannah’s ...

In the 1940s, Black funeral directors in Atlanta came up with a way to combat this dehumanization: grave markers that anointed their dead with the courtesy titles that white society had denied them.

She said another document used to paint a historical picture of Black life are funeral programs. They’re essentially pamphlets with a description of the deceased. “That usually gives you the ...

Jones’ obituary program is a part of digital record now included in the African American Funeral Programs Collection, which is part of the larger West Feliciana Digital History Archive of the ...

When another friend, who is in her 80s, complimented the dress, I told her a bit of its history as the LBD of my closet — now my little black funeral dress. She asked me directly if I was going ...