How New Orleans Funeral Homes Adapted to COVID-19 (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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as posted by the channelHow Black-owned funeral homes in New Orleans have navigated the coronavirus pandemic and its racially disproportionate toll. A co-production between FRONTLINE, Firelight Media and WORLD Channel.
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From award-winning filmmaker Jacqueline Olive, “Death Is Our Business” documents how staff at two of the oldest Black-owned funeral homes in New Orleans have reimagined traditional cultural grieving practices for the COVID-19 era, aiming to bring comfort to a hard-hit city — while trying to keep from falling ill themselves.
Watch "Death Is Our Business," a coproduction between FRONTLINE, Firelight Media and WORLD Channel, starting March 23
The documentary also airs on WORLD Channel March 24
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