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.

After more than 150 years in Germany, the remains of 19 Black people, taken for racist scientific research, have been returned to New Orleans. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest ...

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 ...

More than a century ago, the skulls of 19 African Americans who lived and died in New Orleans were collected and sent to Germany for controversial and racially-biased research. Now, their remains ...

Last weekend, Dillard University held a memorial service and jazz funeral to honor 19 Black New Orleanians whose skulls were wrongfully taken from Charity Hospital and sent to Germany in the 1880s.

He was one of 19 Black patients who died at the hospital in December 1871 and January 1872, and whose skulls were sent to Germany to be studied by a doctor researching a now wholly discredited ...