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Samuel J. Redman is the author of Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology and Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums. A specialist in American cultural and museum history, he is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has worked at the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Field Museum in

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...

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...