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Remains of Black children killed in MOVE bombing used in Ivy League classes Philadelphia apologized for causing “immeasurable and enduring harm” Loading the player... The University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University are facing backlash for using the remains of Black children killed in the MOVE bombing in their Ivy League courses. The city of Philadelphia bombed MOVE, a Black liberation group, on May 13, 1985, with a device that is generally used in combat and used water cannons after...

Decades After Police Bombing, Philadelphians ‘Sickened’ by Handling of Victim’s Bones The disclosure that anthropologists at two Ivy League universities had kept bones from a victim of the 1985 MOVE bombing infuriated its members as well as city leaders. The police, firefighters and workers searching the rubble on Osage Avenue after the police bombing that killed 11 people and destroyed dozens of homes.Credit...George Widman/Associated Press April 24, 2021, 9:06 a.m. ET In the ea...

After the MOVE bombing in 1985, when the Philadelphia Police Department killed 11 adults and five children by dropping a bomb on a house, two of the children’s bodies were handed over for analysis to a forensic anthropologist. To the horror of online activists, he never gave them back. Featured Video Hide MOVE is a Black liberation and environmentalist group that was designated a terrorist organization by former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Gregore J. Sambor and Ma...

Bones of Black Children Killed by Police Used as Teaching Tool in Princeton Course On 4/23/21 at 8:17 AM EDT The bones of at least one and possibly two Black children killed in a police bombing in 1985 have been in the custody of two universities for decades as a teaching tool and are now apparently missing. Philadelphia police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a residential home occupied by members of MOVE, a Black liberation organization, on May 13, 1985, killing eleven people, including ...

Mourners of MOVE members killed in the bombing by the Philadelphia Police stand in front of their former headquarters. They raise their arms with the Black Power salute as the funeral procession for leader John Africa passes. 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 adv...

Bettmann Archive toggle caption Bettmann Archive 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. Bettmann Archive 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 ...

Passed-around remains of Philadelphia MOVE bombing victim spur controversy Updated 7:56 AM; Facebook Share By Craig R. McCoy, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) PHILADELPHIA — More than 35 years after 11 bodies were found in the rubble of the MOVE rowhouse, new questions have emerged over how two universities treated the remains of one victim. The remains, never conclusively identified, were turned over to a University of Pennsylvania professor by an official investigative commission for additi...

Author of the article: John Martinello Publishing date: Apr 21, 2021  •  1 hour ago  •  6 minute read  •  Loading bags of beans into the hold of the Superior at the Wallaceburg Government Dock, 1938. The Superior was a frequent visitor to Wallaceburgs Government Dock. Like the Magog, the Superior was a package freighter and, at 262 feet long and 39 feet wide, was very similar in size to the Magog. This photo gives some idea of what it would have looked li...

It feels so good to be open again, say traders );  ); BUSINESSES in Henley are celebrating a partial return to normal after the third national coronavirus lockdown was eased. From Monday, shops not considered “essential” by the Government were permitted to re-open with social distancing measures in place and customers and staff required to wear face coverings and sanitise their hands. Restaurants, pubs, bars and cafés, which could only serve takeaways after the lockdown was imposed on De...

Author of the article: John Martinello Publishing date: Apr 05, 2021  •  1 hour ago  •  8 minute read  •  The John R Emery at Erie, Pennsylvania, August 2001. In 1957/1958, the Emerys steam engine was replaced with two diesel engines and the forward wheelhouse removed. Although these modifications substantially changed the Emerys profile, the bow of the Emery in this photo, is the same bow, painted green (just as in Alan Manns memories), that battled the Central Bridge during t...