NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — For a lot of people, it's not too hard to trace back their family's roots to different countries and backgrounds. But that ease is not universal. Theresa Gordon took her ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Even for someone ...

The Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center (WHHRC) has received a federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to preserve African American funeral programs documenting family ...

(TNS) - In the first 90 minutes of Federal Emergency Management Agency's COVID-19 funeral assistance program, the office said they got nearly one million calls. On April 12 , FEMA launched a COVID-19 ...

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 ...

A new scam is trying to take advantage of the federal program that helps families with funeral expenses for relatives who died of COVID-19.As part of the American Rescue Plan, FEMA started accepting ...

The federal government program designed to help cover funeral costs for people who have died of COVID-19 was inundated with more than 1 million calls on its launch day. The Federal Emergency Agency ...

It’s a federal program that could help you with funeral costs if your loved one passed away from COVID-19. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) started taking applications in mid-April over ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — This number right here: 844-684-6333 has been dialed over and over and over again. It's the FEMA funeral helpline. It's true, FEMA is offering up to $9,000 to cover funeral expenses ...

A particularly shameless breed of scammers is already trying to take advantage of families looking for financial help from a new government program that offers up to $9,000 to help pay for burying ...