Uploaded March 2011 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Sandra Rhodes Duncan is the owner of the Duplain W. Rhodes Funeral Home, a family business that just marked its 127th anniversary this year, making it one of the oldest mortuaries run by African-Americans in New Orleans. In her What's Your Calling? interview, Mrs. Rhodes Duncan talks about damages that the funeral home suffered during Hurricane Katrina and how the business and the community has come back in the years since. (Greta, Louisiana)


Interview & Camera by Danny Alpert / Editing by Matt Lauterbach / Produced by Rachel Pikelny