NEW ORLEANS — A jazz funeral was held Saturday in New Orleans for 19 Black individuals whose skulls were used in a racist scientific study in Germany more than 150 years ago. In the 1800s, a New ...
New Orleans conducted a deeply meaningful ceremony combining multifaith memorial services with traditional jazz funeral celebrations to honor 19 African American individuals whose remains were finally ...
Jason Berry’s affection for New Orleans’ solemn funeral dirges and joyful second-line processions has seldom waned over the quarter-century or so that he has devoted himself — in fits and starts — to ...
A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial... Marie Louise was a lifelong New Orleanian who died of ...
More than 150 years after their deaths, the remains of 19 Black people were finally laid to rest in New Orleans — the city they once called home — with the dignity they were long denied. On May 31, ...
More than 150 years after their crania were taken from New Orleans and shipped to Germany for racist scientific experiments, 19 Black Americans were finally laid to rest. In a moving display of ...
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 ...
Skulls of 19 Black Americans have returned to New Orleans after more than a century in Germany, where they were sent for racial research. Marie Louise was a lifelong New Orleanian who died of ...
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