A funeral procession in Monroe, Georgia, for George Dorsey and Dorothey Dorsey Malcolm, who were lynched in 1946 Bettmann / CORBIS As a child, Richard Ables played hide-and-seek with his brother among the caskets. He has spent his entire life in the family business, the Hall Brothers Funeral Home, founded in Washington, D.C., by his uncles in 1938.
The Disappearance Of A Distinctively Black Way to Mourn
Tiffany Stanley, The Atlantic
Tue, 01/26/2016 - 5:30am
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