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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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Opinion
Black people were overjoyed when the Nottoway Plantation burned down. I went to Louisiana to learn more about its horrific history.
On the front lawn of the now-destroyed Nottoway Plantation were charred relics of atrocities gone by: a pair of flat-back rocking chairs, a wooden end table, and other sorry debris of what — until a ...
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A New Orleans attorney is buying the Poor Clare monastery, vowing to honor its 'beauty and nature'
Retired attorney and preservationist Tony Gelderman has restored several historic buildings over the past 30 years. His ...
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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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New Orleans Learned To Fly
We are all of that, but we are tired of hearing it. Black New Orleans withstood the battle. But we are still undergoing the war. Photographed by Edward Buckles Jr. Styled by Megan Coates New ...