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3/29/2021 Both Ivy League Colleges Apologize for ‘Serious Error’ in Using Bones of Black Child for Teaching Breaking News The two Ivy League universities at the center of a billowing storm over the use in anthropology teaching of the bones of an African American child killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 have apologized for the “serious error”, promising to return the human remains to relatives who never consented to the practice. The pelvis and femur bones of an unide...

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

feed to stay on top of the news. According to The Guardian, the bones most likely belong to 14-year-old Tree Africa or 12-year-old Delisha Africa — the surname Africa was part of the groups commitment to Black liberation. “The Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania apologize to the Africa family and the members of our community for allowing human remains recovered from the MOVE house to be used for research and teaching, and for retaining the remains for far too long,” read the s...

Ivy League colleges urged to apologise for using bones of black children in teaching material Move members in front of their barricaded house in Philadelphia in 1978. Photograph: Leif Skoogfors/Corbis via Getty Images TWO IVY League institutions are facing demands to an issue an apology for their handling of bones of African American children killed by Philadelphia police in 1985. The University of Pennsylvania and the University of Princeton are at the forefront of the uproar as children’s ...

Ivy League colleges urged to apologise for using bones of Black children in teaching Ed Pilkington Two Ivy League institutions, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton, are facing mounting demands to apologise and make restitution for their handling over decades of the bones of African American children killed by Philadelphia police in 1985. As calls pour in for action to be taken over the use of the children’s remains as props in an online Princeton anthropology course �...

Bones of Black children killed in police bombing used in Ivy League anthropology course Published: April 23, 2021 The bones of Black children who died in 1985 after their home was bombed by Philadelphia police in a confrontation with the Black liberation group which was raising them are being used as a “case study” in an online forensic anthropology course presented by an Ivy League professor. It has emerged that the physical remains of one, or possibly two, of the children who were killed ...