“The City of New Orleans has a long tradition of jazz funerals, but Saturday it is holding a Jazz funeral.” So read the news ...

A New Orleans-style jazz funeral will honor 19 African American individuals whose remains were returned to New Orleans after ...

In the 1800s, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black residents to Leipzig, Germany, where researchers engaged in ...

Lillian Boutté-l’Etienne, the jazz and gospel singer who spent decades in Europe advocating for the music of her native New ...

The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...

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

New Orleans honored 19 African American individuals with jazz funeral ceremony after their remains were repatriated from ...

More than 150 years after their deaths, the individuals were honored with a multifaith memorial and jazz funeral — bringing ...

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

Part of the Memory Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Every part of a ritual funeral procession in New Orleans is sacred. Stafford Agee says it just ...