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Honoring 19 New Orleanians whose skulls were stolen in 1880s; LSU Shreveport Baseball makes history with perfect season
Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn about a repatriation ceremony to honor the lives of 19 Black New Orleanians whose ...
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New Orleans embraces healing ritual for wronged ancestors
New Orleans honored 19 African American individuals with jazz funeral ceremony after their remains were repatriated from ...
Skulls of 19 Black people returned to New Orleans after 150 years
After more than 150 years in Germany, the remains of 19 Black people, taken for racist scientific research, have been ...
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.
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 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 ...
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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 of Black New Orleanians, used as ‘specimens’ in Germany, returned to be laid to rest
Baham leads a team of academics who have worked to return the 19 skulls back to New Orleans after more than a century of ...
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 ...