Dr. Valarie Richardson, Earl Richardson, Jr., and Alex Richardson, the owners of Richard Funeral Home are working with Dr. Antoinette Harrell, a respected historian and genealogist, to help preserve ...

St. Francisville native Sally Allen Jones was born in 1916 just 51 years after African Americans gained their freedom and 49 years before the Voting Rights Act guaranteed her right to vote. History ...

The Digital Library of Georgia recently added more than 3,000 African American funeral home programs from Atlanta and throughout the Southeast to its vast collection of online sources. The programs ...

A substance abuse counselor, Trina Battle planned to enroll in Southwest Tennessee Community College to continue her studies in psychology or pursue a completely different major in graphic design. But ...

What's been called the largest collection of African American funeral programs in the Southwest began with the donation of two dozen pamphlets in the summer of 2005 to the Texana-Genealogy Department ...

FORT GREGG-ADAMS, Va. — When the fabric of America, star-spangled, is presented in a tight, triangular fold. When the grand, old flag is carried on a casket and set down by pallbearers, and when the ...