Drummers lead the parade at a Dia de los Muertos celebration in City Heights. (Photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) This weekend, Mexican American families across the U.S. will gather to ...

WASHINGTON — Dia de los Muertos, known as Day of the Dead, begins this weekend. The holiday, rooted mainly in Mexican culture, honors ancestors and recently deceased loved ones with celebrations, ...

As a Mexican-American who celebrates Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, at the end of October and beginning of November, I’ve noted an increasing concern the past several years that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Miguel finds himself in the Land of the Dead on Día de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), he teams up with a skeleton named ...

Each fall, families across Mexico and beyond gather to celebrate Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a time to honor the memory of loved ones who have passed. The centuries-old holiday, rooted in ...

ATLANTA — While death is often perceived as a sad thing, Día de los Muertos flips the narrative. "The Aztecs, Mayans and Toltecs considered mourning the dead disrespectful," said Adisde Handal, who ...

Día de Los Muertos, like Halloween, is connected to back-to-back Catholic holidays, All Saints Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls Days on Nov. 2. (The night before, called All Hallows Eve, became “Hallowe’en ...

MANKATO — Melissa Lideen has no Mexican heritage. But on Saturday morning, she drove for two hours from her home in Shafer, 40 miles north of St. Paul, to the Dia de los Muertos holiday in Mankato’s ...