Day 6

The dancing pallbearers of LA's 'Death Alley'

In a tough part of South-Central Los Angeles, where gang violence is commonplace and the homicide rate is high, Candy Boyd of Boyd Funeral Home is changing the way death is marked. Music blares from the hearse, and pallbearers dressed in top hats and tails dance the casket down the church aisle. Freelance radio producer Kathy Tu went to a recent funeral conducted...
In a tough part of South-Central Los Angeles, where gang violence is commonplace and the homicide rate is high, Candy Boyd of  Boyd Funeral Home is changing the way death is marked. Music blares from the hearse, and pallbearers dressed in top hats and tails dance the casket down the church aisle. Freelance radio producer Kathy Tu went to a recent funeral conducted by the Boyd Funeral Home to capture the experience.