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 ...

Alice Brown, 15, had lived in New Orleans her whole life before she died in 1871 and became a research subject. Alice was denied a proper burial. Her teenage body was kept for years at the now-defunct ...

More than a century after their bodies were dismembered and their skulls sent to Germany to aid in racially-biased phrenology research, the remains of 19 African Americans have been returned to New ...

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 Orleans doctor sent ...

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 ...