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By Pam Africa described police abuse her family experienced at a protest outside the Penn Museum on April 28, 2021, over the museum’s mistreatment of the remains of children Tree and Delisha Africa who were killed when Philadelphia police dropped explosives on MOVEs headquarters in 1985. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) More than 100 people rallied Wednesday evening in front of Penn Museum to call on the University of Pennsylvania to immediately return remains belonging to children who died in the 198...

Princeton and University of Pennsylvania at center of storm over the use of the bones of a child killed by police bombing in 1985

An online course offered by Princeton University on the platform Coursera called “Real Bones: Adventures in forensic anthropology” has been suspended in the wake of a controversy about how the remains of MOVE bombing victims were handled by two anthropologists who taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. The class was taught by Janet Monge, a curator in the physical anthropology section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum who was also an adjunct professor at ...

University apologizes after losing remains of 2 children killed in Philadelphia’s 1985 MOVE bombing Remains of 2 children killed in 1985 MOVE bombing missing By KYW staff | April 27, 2021 at 9:13 AM EDT - Updated April 27 at 9:17 AM PHILADELPHIA (KYW) - The University of Pennsylvania is apologizing for keeping and then losing track of the remains of two young people killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing. The University of Pennsylvania has retained external legal counsel to figure out why the...

MOVE denounces museum’s desecration of children’s remains By Betsey Piette posted on April 26, 2021 Philadelphia At an emotion filled press conference April 26, MOVE members strongly denounced the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Princeton University for holding the remains of family members killed in the 1985 police bombing of their home.  From left: Carlos Africa, Janet Africa, Pam Africa (standing), Janine Africa, Consuela Africa and Eddie Africa. Credit: Joe Piette News that Pen...

Princeton University apologizes for mistreatment of 1985 MOVE bombing victims’ remains Updated 3:08 PM; Princeton University is apologizing for its role in mishandling bones of victims of the 1985 bombing of the MOVE organization in Philadelphia that were never returned to the family. Retired Princeton Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Alan Mann was in custody of remains of children who were killed in the police bombings, which burned two city blocks and left 11 people dead. He was hired in...

After an Uproar, the Penn Museum Will Return the Suspected Remains of a Black Teenage Girl Who Died in a 1985 Police Bombing An online course in which the remains were used as a case study has stirred up controversy for the Philadelphia institution.  April 27, 2021 Smoke billows over rowhouses in the West Philadelphia after the police bombed the home of the radical African American organization MOVE during a standoff, via Getty Images. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and ...

On top of Philly news MOVE members mourn their children’s lives as Penn Museum apologizes for storing remains University administrators now say they want to “reunite” the remains with their family — but it’s still unclear where they are. Consuela Africa (right) breaks down talking about the bombing of their family and the withholding of their children’s remains, next to Pam Africa (center), and Janine Africa (right) Kimberly Paynter / ...

Then, this week, WHYYs Billy Penn published a story saying that human remains from the bombing, believed to be those of two children, sat in a cardboard box on a shelf at Penn’s Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for years. Originally, they’d been entrusted to a Penn anthropologist, Alan Mann, so that he could verify their identities. Yet decades later, apparently because Mann was unable to conclusively identify them, they had had not been returned to family members. Man...

Mourners of MOVE members killed in the 1985 bombing by the Philadelphia police stand in front of their former headquarters. They raise their arms with the Black Power salute during the funeral procession for leader John Africa. The remains of two Black children killed in an infamous 1985 Philadelphia police bombing have gone missing, with two Ivy League universities unable to confirm their whereabouts. City lawmakers last year issued a formal apology for the attack on MOVE, a Black liberation a...