Despite the many adversities they have encountered — or, perhaps, because of them — Black people have a long history of entrepreneurship, and their innovation has had lasting impacts on Black families ...

Cultural historian Cory J. France receives the Rory Turner Prize for Cultural Sustainability at Goucher College, advocating for Black cemetery preservation.

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 ...

Michigan's first Black-owned cemetery and oldest African American corporation is celebrating 100 years of service to the community. In 1925, a group of African American funeral directors convened to ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Historic Athens hosted their monthly “History Hour” at the Lyndon House Art Center ...

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 ...

Losing a loved one is hard enough. But when you’re also the one making the arrangements, planning the service, and trying to hold it together for everyone else? That grief gets layered with stress, ...

Ypsilanti’s Woodlawn Cemetery, a historically Black burial ground long abandoned and overgrown, is getting a second chance ...