At 8 p.m. Friday, June 20, through Monday, June 23, at Marigny Opera House. Tickets $31.37-$78.33 (including fees) via ...

Nero’s ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination ...

Classically trained pianist Lilli Lewis boasts an operatic voice and a knack for writing deeply affecting songs that draw on ...

Andrews and his band Orleans Avenue will be joined by Southern rock group JJ Grey and Mofro, along with fellow New Orleans ...

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After more than 150 years in Germany, the remains of 19 Black people, taken for racist scientific research, have been returned to New Orleans.

Germany returned the skulls used for "racial pseudoscience," a committee said The remains of 19 Black ... of New Orleans and University Medical Center will hold a New Orleans-style jazz funeral ...

Underneath oak trees and Spanish moss from Texas to the Carolina coasts, the remains of Black Americans lay in unmarked graves across roadside cemeteries and backyards. While some graves now remain ...

Saturday’s jazz funeral — a New Orleans Second Line ... Image Michael White performed at the ceremony at Rhodes Funeral Home honoring the 19 Black Americans.Credit...Jacob Cochran/Dillard ...

Dillard University will hold a ceremony to honor 19 Black ... born in New Orleans or had only been in the city for days or weeks – will be honored in a historic memorial and jazz funeral.

For Black New Orleans, these funeral second lines, sometimes called jazz funerals by observers ... and even Betty White, after their deaths. In New Orleans, grief doesn’t exist without laughter ...

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