CALL THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE. A JAZZ FUNERAL WAS HELD ON DILLARD UNIVERSITY’S CAMPUS TODAY AS 19 PEOPLE SKULLS WERE RETURNED TO NEW ORLEANS AFTER 150 YEARS. THIS SKULL SENT TO GERMANY FOR RACIAL. PSUEDO ...

The remains of 19 African Americans were wrongfully taken from New Orleans in 1872 and sent to Leipzig, Germany, for racially biased scientific research. (Jacob Cochran / Dillard University) More than ...

Remains from 19 people whose craniums were shipped to Germany for racist pseudoscientific experimentation in the 19th century have now come home to New Orleans. Why it matters: The Dillard ...

The remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s to perform "racial pseudoscience" experiments, were brought to New Orleans to be properly memorialized, a ...

A jazz funeral was held for the 19 people whose skulls were used in a racist scientific study in Germany over 150 years.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On ...

Marie Louise was a lifelong New Orleanian who died of malnutrition. Hiram Malone came to Louisiana from Alabama, hospitalized at 21 with a fatal case of pneumonia. Samuel Prince was a 40-year-old cook ...

It was a rare, perhaps unprecedented sight in the City of Saratoga Springs: A New Orleans-style jazz funeral procession ...

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