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.

“African Americans who were taken from New Orleans in the 19th century after their death, still stripped of their dignity,” said Dr. Monique Guillory, President of Dillard University. The ...

Dédé grew up in a New Orleans that resonated with the bel cantos of opera, long before the city became the birthplace of jazz. Throughout the 19th century, New Orleans was the nation’s ...

treated the group to two selections from a 138-year-old opera by New Orleans-born, 19th century composer Edmond Dédé. It was one of the first times the music from the opera "Morgiane," a comic ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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.