re: Black posters, what is repass?

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Repass", or the gathering, occurs directly after the burial or burial ceremony has taken place. Sometimes held at the home of the family of the deceased, more often it is held at the deceased’s church or some other civic building if the deceased has no church affiliation.
This meal allows the family time to catch up on each other’s lives. While funeral services provide the more formal rites of death, the repass “demonstrates the continuity of life even in the face of death.”

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That's it? White people do this also but I don't believe we call it anything.

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the gathering, occurs directly after the burial or burial ceremony has taken place

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With families spread across the country, sometimes these are the only time one might see relatives or friends. One of these in 1973 caused my dad's family to start having a family reunion every year. My dad and one of his 12 siblings realized they hadn't seen each other in almost four years. They've had one every year since. Sometimes sitting around that table together breaking bread is exactly what we need.