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Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions may require permission of the copyright holder. Local Black funeral owners and directors have slammed the efforts of a new non-White funeral home to cut into their business. They have also charged that a few local Black mortuaries are allowing themselves to be used as fronts to lure people away from long-standing Black firms.
At the center of the dispute is National Funerals, a rising chain of low-priced funeral homes that has catered mostly the Latino com- munity. The chain has been enjoy- ing some success in the Black com- See story on Page 2B. Students serve the community Carol City Elementary School students have undertaken a series of community service activities to boost their sense of service and responsibility.
Here some of them are with teachers during a drive to distribute 1, toys. The company's success has alarmed Miami's top Black funeral directors, who view its increasing presence as a threat to a profession they view as culturally signficant in the community.
They have had a series of meet- ings to discuss the threat to their business and have taken out a large advertisement in The Miami Times denouncing what they see as an encroachment on their busi- ness and attacking local mortuar- ies which, they say, have provided them with a foothold. National Funerals and as its Black business partners sayu the real issue is economics and com- petition, not race. The apartment owners agreed to pay the money to people whom they refused to rent apartments to from to Aug.
