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Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany
The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...
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 ...
Remains of 19 Black Americans returned to New Orleans nearly 150 years later
A New Orleans committee announced the remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s will receive a jazz funeral.
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Skulls of 19 African Americans returned to New Orleans after 140 years
More than a century after their remains were taken and sent overseas for racist scientific study, 19 African Americans are ...
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’ ...
Dillard University honors 19 African Americans whose remains were used for racially biased research
After their bodies were dismembered over a century ago and their skulls sent to Germany in racially-biased phrenology ...
Skulls Of 19 Black Americans Once Used In Racist Research Finally Laid To Rest In New Orleans
More than 150 years after their deaths, the individuals were honored with a multifaith memorial and jazz funeral — bringing dignity to lives once desecrated in the name of science.