How 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.

This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate​.

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 co-production between FRONTLINE, Firelight Media and WORLD Channel, starting March 23: https://to.pbs.org/3vRkxer

The documentary also airs on WORLD Channel March 24: https://bit.ly/2PmcAwK

Love FRONTLINE? Find us on the PBS Video App where there are more than 300 FRONTLINE documentaries available for you to watch any time: https://to.pbs.org/FLVideoApp​

#Documentary​ #Coronavirus #NewOrleans

Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1BycsJW​
Instagram:   / frontlinepbs​  
Twitter:   / frontlinepbs​  
Facebook:   / frontline  

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by the Ford Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.