Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Halloween is not based on Day of the Dead, also known as Dia De Los Muertos, they do both share ancient roots that ...

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 ...

A lot of people mix up “Día de los Muertos” with Halloween, but they are actually very different. To help you learn more about this unique Mexican holiday, here are some interesting facts. The Day of ...

Every November 1 and 2, thousands of Mexican families set up altars to honor the memory of their loved ones. In recent years, this tradition has also found a special place to remember those who ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Modesto tradition honoring loved ones who have passed away is taking a new shape this year after the longtime organizer of the city's Day of the Dead festival died. For more than a decade, Rebecca ...