NEW ORLEANS — A jazz funeral was held Saturday in New Orleans for 19 Black individuals whose skulls were used in a racist scientific study in Germany more than 150 years ago. In the 1800s, a New ...

CALL THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE. A JAZZ FUNERAL WAS HELD ON DILLARD UNIVERSITY’S CAMPUS TODAY AS 19 PEOPLE SKULLS WERE RETURNED TO NEW ORLEANS AFTER 150 YEARS. THIS SKULL SENT TO GERMANY FOR RACIAL. PSUEDO ...

New Orleans conducted a deeply meaningful ceremony combining multifaith memorial services with traditional jazz funeral celebrations to honor 19 African American individuals whose remains were finally ...

The remains of 19 African Americans were wrongfully taken from New Orleans in 1872 and sent to Leipzig, Germany, for racially biased scientific research. (Jacob Cochran / Dillard University) More than ...

A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial... Marie Louise was a lifelong New Orleanian who died of ...

OUR FULL FORECAST. BUT THIS MORNING THE COMMUNITY REMEMBERING BELOVED NEW ORLEANS JAZZ SINGER LILLIAN BOUTTÉ WHO PASSED AWAY LAST WEEK. NOW THAT’S ACCORDING TO SOURCES WHO KNEW HER. SHE PASSED AWAY AT ...

Lillian Boutté-l’Etienne, the jazz and gospel singer who spent decades in Europe advocating for the music of her native New Orleans, died May 23 following a long illness. She was 75. The fourth oldest ...

Jason Berry’s affection for New Orleans’ solemn funeral dirges and joyful second-line processions has seldom waned over the quarter-century or so that he has devoted himself — in fits and starts — to ...

NEW ORLEANS — A beloved New Orleans singer, Lillian Boutté was remembered on Saturday as friends, family and fans gathered in her honor. The jazz vocalist died last month after a lengthy illness. Her ...

Marie Louise was a lifelong New Orleanian who died of malnutrition. Hiram Malone came to Louisiana from Alabama, hospitalized at 21 with a fatal case of pneumonia. Samuel Prince was a 40-year-old cook ...