After battling cancer for 13 years, Philip Rotte was remembered with music, memories, and one last drink with friends.

Dillard University hosts a jazz funeral for 19 Black Americans whose remains were desecrated for racist pseudoscience.

Dr. Eva Baham, a historian who led Dillard’s repatriation efforts in partnership with the University of Leipzig, joined ...

“The City of New Orleans has a long tradition of jazz funerals, but Saturday it is holding a Jazz funeral.” So read the news ...

The late composer's groundbreaking work will be heard in two movies on the schedule, 'The Slender Thread' and 'The Pawnbroker ...

When Washington was a segregated city, Black communities flourished in the Shaw and LeDroit Park neighborhoods, which were ...

More than 150 years after their deaths, the individuals were honored with a multifaith memorial and jazz funeral — bringing ...

New Orleans honored 19 African American individuals with jazz funeral ceremony after their remains were repatriated from ...

In the 1800s, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black residents to Leipzig, Germany, where researchers engaged in ...

A jazz funeral was held for the 19 people whose skulls were used in a racist scientific study in Germany over 150 years.

Jazz funeral for the returned remains ...