More than 100 people followed Aztec dancers through an arch of paper flowers into El Colegio High School on Saturday morning to visit altars that students had created to commemorate Día de Muertos or ...

Instead of pruning your dead aster flowers to prepare for the colder months ahead, leave them alone and bask in your feathered friends' appreciation.

In recent years, the celebration has become more commercialized, leaving many in the community wondering how to preserve the ...

A collaborative work by a photographer, a poet, and an artist, “The Harlem Book of the Dead,” newly reissued, tells stories through funerary portraits.

The typically quiet Tyler Rose Lawn Cemetery with occasional crow squawks filled with chatter and the sound of scrubbing brushes as Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic School students cleaned grave ...

From street fairs to sugar skull decorating workshops, San Francisco's Día de los Muertos weekend has something for everyone.

Cempasúchil flowers hold a special significance during annual Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico. Here's how the tradition ...

Day of the Dead celebrations changed during COVID, shaped by anxieties about the ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender violence.

As Halloween fades into Día de los Muertos, Will Hunt reflects on how the dead shape our world through rituals, memory, and ...

The cempasuchil flower, also known as the Mexican marigold, has been farmed for generations and takes the spotlight every ...

While Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is known for its tradition to celebrate the loss of loved ones, the symbol behind ...

Many plants and flowers have symbolic meanings, and their presence on a grave may reflect something unique about the deceased ...