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Tag: Dillard University

Posted inCommunity

Bringing them home: Eva Baham’s search for the stolen 19

Avatar photo by Ayiana Love, Dillard University June 19, 2025June 17, 2025

Behind the effort to bring the skulls of 19 Black New Orleanians, held in Germany for more than 150 years, back home.

Eva Baham, Dillard University professor of history and chair of the Cultural Repatriation Committee, holds a box containing one of 19 skulls of African Americans returned to New Orleans in May 2025 after they were shipped from Charity Hospital to Germany more than a century ago.
Posted inHealth

Skulls of Black New Orleanians, used as ‘specimens’ in Germany, returned to be laid to rest

Bobbi-Jeanne Misick by Bobbi-Jeanne Misick May 28, 2025May 28, 2025
U.S. Rep. Troy Carter speaks at a town hall about potential cuts to Medicaid at Dillard University on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
Posted inNews

Residents express frustration with federal government at Troy Carter town hall on Medicaid

Avatar photo by Safura Syed March 19, 2025March 19, 2025
Albert W. Dent and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent in 1979.
Posted inBack in the Day

Ernestine Dent: classical musician and founder of Ebony Fashion Fair

by Tammy C. Barney December 18, 2024December 18, 2024
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (Center), standing with New Orleans businessman Edgar B. Stern, left, and Dillard University President Albert W. Dent in 1954.
Posted inBack in the Day

Albert W. Dent was a hospital administrator and president of Dillard University

by Tammy C. Barney December 16, 2024December 16, 2024
Posted inBack in the Day

‘For My People’ poet Margaret Walker grew up in N.O.

by Tammy C. Barney December 9, 2024December 13, 2024
The reading group will meet at Southern University of New Orleans in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science (AHSS) Building room 111 on Friday, Nov. 15 at 4 p.m.
Posted inEducation

New Orleans HBCUs organize Saidiya Hartman reading groups in preparation for visit from scholar

Avatar photo by John Gray November 15, 2024November 15, 2024
Jarvis DeBerry, MSNBC Daily’s opinion editor, talks with former elected official, commentator and author Bakari Sellers at Baldwin & Co. in New Orleans on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.
Posted inCommunity

Baldwin & Co. hosts Bakari Sellers to talk about new book ‘The Moment’

Avatar photo by John Gray October 8, 2024October 18, 2024
The former site of the Flint-Goodridge Hospital in New Orleans is shown in this photo from Aug. 28, 2024.
Posted inHealth

Most Black hospitals across the South closed long ago. Their impact endures.

Avatar photo by John Gray and Lauren Sausser | KFF Health News August 28, 2024August 28, 2024
Dillard University's Class of 2023 line up for commencement.
Posted inEducation

June 6, 1930: A charter was proposed to create Dillard University

S. Stecker Headshot by Shannon Stecker June 6, 2023August 11, 2023

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