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New Orleans holds burial of repatriated African Americans whose skulls were used in racist research
In honor of the return and burial of 19 African American skulls used in racist research, New Orleans hosted a multifaith ...
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.
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 ...
Jazz funeral honors 19 individuals returned to New Orleans
A jazz funeral celebrates the return and remembrance of 19 African American individuals taken for racial pseudoscience over ...
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Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany 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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19 Black Americans' skulls return to New Orleans after 150 years for memorial service
The heads were returned to New Orleans about a week ago following ... A visitation will take place Saturday at Dillard’s Lawless Memorial Chapel with a service. Laid to rest will be the remains ...
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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 ... university’s chapel during a service Saturday that also included music from the Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective. A New Orleans physician provided ...
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Skulls of Black New Orleanians, denied burial, were sent to Germany for research. They'll now be laid to rest
Alice Brown, 15, had lived in New Orleans her whole ... with a public visitation and memorial service at 9 a.m. in Dillard University's Lawless Memorial Chapel before their incomplete remains ...
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Remains of Black New Orleanians, used for research in Germany, are back home. See the list
with the remains arriving in New Orleans earlier this month. A public visitation is planned for Saturday at 9 a.m. at Dillard University's Lawless Memorial Chapel followed by a memorial service at ...