Cultural changes hitting area’s black funeral homes

When there was a death in Rhonda Jackson’s family, Thomas T. Edwards Funeral Home would be called.

“They had done the arrangements for my grandfather and my father,” she said.

For another local black family it might have been another black funeral home, like the iconic H. Alfred Lewis Mortuary on Jefferson Avenue or Memorial Chapels of Buffalo on East Utica Street. And in Niagara Falls, the African-American community turned to Williamson Funeral Home on Main Street.
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This applies to small political parties that control town services.

Experts say the monopoly that black firms once enjoyed made them complacent.