E185 History professor, death studies scholar and author human Dr. Kami Fletcher is an Associate professor of American & African American History at Albright College and President of The Collective for Radical Death Studies. She’s co-author of “Real Business: Maryland’s First Black Cemetery Journeys into the Enterprise of Death, 1807 – 1920,” and the forthcoming Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Boarders Uncrossed (April 2020). We discuss death and death rituals past and present within the black community, as well as female deathwork, and 19th and early 20th century undertakers. Dr. Fletcher also touches on her own grieving process and death as resistance.

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