Residents will have wide fields to choose from up and down the municipal ballot. Fourteen people are running for mayor. Six ...

In 1871, Henry D. Schmidt, a New Orleans doctor, “gifted” the crania of 19 formerly enslaved African American and mixed-race individuals to Dr. Emil Ludwig Schmidt at the University of Leipzig ...

How did Dillard University get the remains back? The process to bring home the remains began about two years ago and involved Dillard, the Louisiana Department of Justice, the city of New Orleans ...

Her keynote is a reflection of the company’s continued dedication and deep commitment to the city of New Orleans. The President & CEO of Essence Ventures, Caroline Wanga, left the 2023 ...

Dillard University hosted a jazz funeral honoring 19 individuals whose skulls were returned to New Orleans after being sent to Leipzig, Germany, for racial pseudoscience over 150 years ago.

The city of New Orleans, in partnership with University Medical Center New Orleans, Dillard University, and other organizations, will hold a sacred ceremony on May 31 to honor the 19 skulls, NBC ...

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ... Dillard University researchers say more digging ...

But the city, University Medical Center New Orleans, Dillard University and other entities did not blink. A memorial and a proper jazz funeral are scheduled Saturday to lay the remains of the 19 ...

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.

Dillard University set up a cultural repatriation committee to learn more about the 19 people and, most important, to work out the complicated logistics of bringing their skulls back to New ...

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.