Dancers at the Day of the Dead parade.. Photo by Joseph Johnston. They based these on family history, their love of Mexican artists like Jose Guadalupe Posada, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock Far from the macabre Halloween-adjacent holiday many outsiders imagine, Day of the Dead represents one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across Michigan, groups are preparing to host Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebrations this weekend, Nov. 1-2. The ...

MEXICO CITY — Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, ...

Halloween may be the most well-known fall holiday, but arguably the most meaningful one takes place the days after Oct. 31. Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, takes place this weekend, so here's ...

The Days of the Dead are happening this weekend and you will probably observe ancient rituals in some way. But do you really know what they are and where they come from? Everyone knows the secular ...

This weekend, Mexican American families across the U.S. will gather to honor their ancestors with altars, marigolds and sugar skulls on Dia de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead. In recent years, the ...

Mr. Lomnitz is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University and the author of “Death and the Idea of Mexico." Joyful. Ironic. Soulful. Intimate. These are some of the words that have ...

I grew up in the Catholic church and with a Nov. 1 birthday always knew about All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day. But it wasn’t until I lived in San Antonio that I knew about the connection between ...

Far from the macabre Halloween-adjacent holiday many outsiders imagine, Day of the Dead represents one of humanity's most beautiful approaches to mortality: transforming loss into celebration, grief ...