Friends and family filled an Astoria church to pay their final respects to Justin Diaz, who was on his way to work when his ...
Mamie’s decision to have the open-casket funeral became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Dr. Kenna Franklin, Assistant Professor and Associate Vice Provost for Community Engagement at ...
“He just earned his degree in aeronautics,” Diaz’s brother Franklin Diaz told the Daily ... his family placed the degree in his bronze casket before it was closed. The victim was on his ...
Sight & Sound’s ‘A Great Awakening,’ a period piece set in the in the late 18th century, had a Pennsylvania couple's big ...
Women comprise more than half of the population and make history virtually everywhere. Yet, only 13 U.S. national park sites ...
They have enjoyed sharing some of their stories and took the advice of Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father ... but mortuaries and funeral practices, casket and tombstone makers, and the symbolism ...
His favorite of the lot — a 1930s brass clock depicting Franklin Delano Roosevelt as ... at the Antique Depot in Duncansville, with a casket-shaped ring box to match. “That was probably ...
From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.