Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black-owned funeral homes serve as vital cultural institutions. Among the first businesses established by African Americans after ...

By Kelly Edmondson In Black communities, we have always known how to show up for the funeral. The question we're not asking loudly enough is: who shows up after? I ...

Commentator John McCann explains the hardships a black-owned funeral home went through when the government stepped in to take the property without consent of the owner. McCann is a columnist for The ...

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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 in ...

Julian Reeder’s family was hard to miss amid the sea of black-clad mourners at Riverdale’s Fountain of Faith Missionary Baptist Church one Friday in January. They were dressed in white, matching the ...

Savannah, Georgia, is a historic city filled with a rich culture and a large Black community. The city is honoring and celebrating its oldest Black-owned business, the Bynes-Royall Funeral Home, as it ...