1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 How&amp;nbsp;do&amp;nbsp;historic and&amp;nbsp;present-day&amp;nbsp;death rituals and funeral practices in the Black community&amp;nbsp;serve as&amp;nbsp;acts of resistance? Dr. Kami Fletcher is a historian and death scholar whose research focuses on the history of African American deathways&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;deathwork. She is an&amp;nbsp;Associate professor of American &amp;amp; African American History at Albright College&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;President of The Collective for Radical Death Studies.&amp;nbsp;We talk about a lot in this episode, including the oldest African American cemetery, Mt. Auburn,&amp;nbsp;the ways&amp;nbsp;the institution of slavery suppressed African American&amp;nbsp;death rituals,&amp;nbsp;how funeral practices in the Black community serve as acts of resistance, and how the modern-day practice of RIP t-shirts played a role in Dr. Fletcher’s personal grief after her cousin Willie died in 2017. &amp;nbsp; Follow Dr. Fletcher on Twitter (@kamifletcher36)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The&amp;nbsp;Collective&amp;nbsp;for Radical Death Studies&amp;nbsp; Dr. Fletcher’s most recent book -&amp;nbsp;Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed Grief Out Loud https://www.dougy.org/news-media/podcasts <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/15206360/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/78260420