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A pair of Ivy League universities apologized recently for mishandling the bones of a Black teen killed in a 1985 Philadelphia police bombing. The child’s remains remained at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for decades and were used as an exhibit for an online forensic anthropology class that Princeton University hosted. Neither of the prestigious schools asked for consent from the child’s surviving loved ones to use her remains for teaching and researc...

295 3 minutes read Protesters have taken to the streets in Philadelphia as outrage spreads across the city and the country over the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University’s theft of the remains of Tree and Delisha Africa, members of the MOVE organization who were murdered in the infamous May 13, 1985, bombing. Their remains were stolen from the site of the bombing by Penn Anthropologist Alan Mann after he was hired by the Philadelphia Medical Examiner to provide specialist ad...

Rally demands: MOVE children deserve to rest in peace By Betsey Piette posted on April 29, 2021 Philadelphia YahNé Ndgo opened the rally outside the Penn Museum in Philadelphia April 28 by denouncing the University of Pennsylvania’s sadistic desecration of the remains of two young Black MOVE family members. Ndgo, representing Black Lives Matter Philadelphia, stated: “We can never forget the humanity of Black people, and we should never have to remind people of the value of our lives. Bla...

On top of Philly news Carl E. Singley works at Tucker Law Group, considered the region’s largest Black-owned firm. Protesters demonstrated this week outside Penn Museum over the handling of the recently revealed MOVE remains Kimberly Paynter / WHYY Apr. 30, 2021, 7:45 a.m. �� Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day. A week after news broke that the University of Pe...

In a 2019 video tutorial produced by Princeton, students watched the smiling white anthropologist Janet Monge and a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate hold a human pelvic bone and a femur up to the camera as rows of human skulls, backlit and neatly lined up in wooden cabinets, rested behind them. The bones the two held, transferred between universities over decades, likely belong to Delisha Africa and Katricia “Tree” Africa, two Black children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing, in which...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Following protests, two Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University — have issued apologies for their handling of the remains of an African American child killed by the Philadelphia police in the 1985 MOVE bombing. Students at Princeton held a protest on campus to support the demands of the MOVE community, who held another protest at the same time at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, and 70...

Its "very likely" that some of the people whose remains Morton collected were born into slavery, Woods said.  In a report released April 8, the committee shared a series of recommendations that include apologizing for collecting the remains and, whenever possible, returning them to their descendants and communities of origin as "a step towards atoning for the racist, unethical, and colonial practices which were integral to the formation of these collections." Woods, who joined the museums sta...

[Opinion] Philly Museum Apologizes for Keeping Bones of a Black Child Killed in MOVE Bombing Raid for More Than 30 Years Terrell Jermaine Starr © Photo: George Widman (AP) In this May, 1985 file photo, a Philadelphia policeman is seen on a rooftop as flames rise from a row of burning homes beyond, in Philadelphia. The fire started when police dropped a bomb onto the house of the militant group MOVE, on May 13, 1985 and fire spread throughout the area. The University of Penn...

It’s No Surprise the Remains of Black Children Killed by Police Ended Up in a Princeton Class Slate 4/30/2021 Elaine Ayers © Bettmann via Getty Times Supporters of MOVE conduct an anniversary march through the Osage Street neighborhood in Philadelphia on May 13, 1986, one year to the day after police bombed a MOVE house, destroying 61 homes and killing 11 MOVE members. Bettmann via Getty Times In a 2019 video tutorial produced by Princeton, students watched the smiling wh...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. Two Ivy League universities have apologized after the remains of a pair of children killed in a 1985 bombing in Philadelphia were kept by researchers for decades without the knowledge of the families. The MOVE bombing, conducted by city police, killed six adults and five children linked to a Black anarcho-primitivist militant group. And it sparked an inferno that incinerated more than 60 nearby homes. The remains o...