Lima, Peru: Where The Pallbearers Are Black What Is A Pallbearers Job

Black pallbearers leave the cemetery after carrying the coffin for a burial in Lima, Peru, on June 21, 2013. In 2009 the government of then-President Alan Garcia issued a public apology to Afro-Peruvians for a racist tradition of colonial slavery - largely in cane fields - for which they never received reparations. A year later, his government suggested Lima funeral homes stop employing blacks exclusively as pallbearers.Rodrigo Abd / AP

Franklin Briceno, The Associated Press