19 Black New Orleanians' Remains Returned After 150 Years for Rest and Remembrance
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The craniums of 19 Black individuals, taken from Charity Hospital in 1872 and shipped to Germany for racist scientific research, have been returned to New Orleans and will be memorialized in a jazz funeral to honor their lives and confront a dark chapter in history.
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