Black-owned Funeral Homes Face Existential Challenge

Dwayne Bickham, an attendant at Bowman and Young who has worked there since he was 17. Marketplace APM
The funeral, or “death-care” industry, brings in an estimated $20 billion a year in the U.S., but the industry is changing. There’s been a shift towards chain funeral homes, and more people are choosing cremation. In some U.S. cities, that has black-owned funeral homes particularly worried about staying above ground.