Journalist Ida B. Wells was one of the first women The New York Times profiled for its 'Overlooked' series, about people who should have received obituaries. Scott Olson/Getty Images Gender ...

When it comes to researching family history, the obit is a treasure trove of information. Genealogists hunt down a family’s history by using a wide variety of resources, from church records to census ...

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A man in New Jersey was loved so much that both his wife and girlfriend placed two different obituaries in the same newspaper. NJ.com reported that Leroy "Blast" Bill Black ...

I’ve been reading the obituaries in the newspaper since I was in my late teens and working as an intern at the Miami News. It wasn’t a fascination with death, just the beginning of a lifelong desire ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. There was a time when newspaper obituaries focused mostly on the rich and famous. Jim Nicholson changed that. The obit writer for the ...

After an editorial in a student newspaper last week pleaded with leaders at Notre Dame to not “make us write obituaries,” the university said it agreed with the students’ concern about the spread of ...

College students in Indiana implored their classmates and administrators to act responsibly during the coronavirus pandemic, in a bold newspaper editorial titled, “Don’t make us write obituaries.” The ...