Directed by: Channing Godfrey Peoples
USA

Synopsis

Death is not as bad as its cracked up to be… Ruth “Cookie” Baker – Fourth Generation Funeral Director

For over two centuries, African-American funeral homes have passed down an untold, elaborate tradition of burying the dead in grand flair. Carry Me Home, a short documentary, witnesses this tradition touch one widow’s life and transforms her grief into celebration. After the loss of her husband, Lessie Thompson surrounds herself with her family and prepares for the funeral, opening a window into the rich, vivid history of African-American funeral traditions that span from segregation and slavery all the way back to West Africa.

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