VIDEO: Dillard University honors 19 African Americans whose remains were used for racially biased research

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans celebrated the repatriation 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. On Saturday, a multifaith memorial service and jazz funeral honored their final resting place at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial. The people had passed away between 1871 and 1872 at a hospital in New Orleans, researchers say. In 2023, the University of Leipzig in Germany, which held the skulls of the 19 people, reached out to the City of New Orleans to find a way to return the remains in a process managed by Dillard University.

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