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New Orleans holds burial of repatriated African Americans whose skulls were used in racist research
New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ...
New Orleans Jazz Funeral honors 19 victims of 1800s racist study of Black skulls in Germany
In the 1800s, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black residents to Leipzig, Germany, where researchers engaged in ...
19 Black Americans' skulls return to New Orleans after 150 years for memorial service
The city of New Orleans, Dillard University and other agencies to give them a proper memorial service on Saturday.
Confronting the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans
There's an ongoing attempt to erase knowledge of these atrocities and pretend as if they were just figments of Black folks’ ...
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Remains of Black New Orleanians, used for research in Germany, are back home. See the list
After 155 years, the remains of Black New Orleanians, used in a racially based German medical research, are being sent home.
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Skulls of Black New Orleanians, denied burial, were sent to Germany for research. They'll now be laid to rest
More than a century ago, the skulls of 19 African Americans who lived and died in New Orleans were collected and sent to ...
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Skulls taken to Germany for racist study are laid to rest in New Orleans
A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were ...
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New Orleans holds burial of repatriated African Americans whose skulls were used in racist research
On Saturday, a multifaith memorial ... the university's chapel during a service Saturday that also included music from the Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective. A New Orleans physician ...