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It was also one of the more profitable professions open to black families-in 1977, Black Enterprise magazine called funeral directors the "most viable businessmen within the black community." The Department of Health created the Bureau of Funeral Directing, which required funeral directors to complete a certification program, one-year residency, and national board exam.
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William Ragland was murdered for $500 and some heroin on July 11, 2002. A lone gunman shot him four times at close range, and William was dead within minutes. ¶ At the time of his murder, the DEA had pegged Raglandasa crack dealer at the John Adams projects in the Bronx. But says his older brother Tyrone, he was trying to get out of that life. ¶ "We were on our way up," Tyrone remembers. The brothers were planning to buy a multi-family house in Queens, where they wanted to raise their children away from the guns and drugs in their Bronx neighborhood. But it was too late. As Tyrone looked at houses with his wife, a rival dealer in William's neighborhood was counting out bills to pay for the contract killing. ¶ William's murder was a brutal blow to his family, but his death left them unprepared what happened next. Despite the physical traumato William's body, the Ragland family had every reason to believe that his corpse would be pre-pared in a way to allow for an open-casket fu...
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