The heads were returned to New Orleans about a week ago after a two ... A visitation will take place Saturday at Dillard’s Lawless Memorial Chapel with a service. Laid to rest will be the ...

More than a century and a half later, their remains have been returned to New Orleans. Dillard University and several local organizations held a memorial service at Lawless Memorial Chapel on ...

Dillard University hosts a jazz funeral for 19 Black Americans whose remains were desecrated for racist pseudoscience.

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.

The craniums of 19 Black Americans, whose heads were severed and sent to Germany for “research” in 1872, are being returned ...