Being a co-owner and funeral director at Curran Funeral Homes is a full-circle experience for James Kunkle, 48, of Vandergrift. Kunkle’s father, Arthur “Art” Kunkle, 70, of Apollo, purchased the ...

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 ...

I was talking to a funeral home director in Georgia recently who told me something that shocked me, and I am sure, will shock you too. Think you know who owns your local Black community funeral home?

Eric Warmka, Minnesota Valley Funeral Home director in New Ulm, Minn., operates a nonprofit funeral home that has been providing affordable funeral home services since 1929. With the rising care of ...