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  Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) on Thursday announced that he asked the city’s health commissioner to resign after learning that he had cremated and disposed of some remains belonging to victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing without family consent. Kenney said in a statement that it was only this week when he learned that health commissioner Thomas Farley discovered remains in the medical examiner’s office back in 2017 belonging to victims in the police bombing, who were members of the Black liberation group MOVE. Farley said he believed that any subsequent investigation into their deaths...

Philadelphia on Thursday marks the city’s first official day of remembrance for the 1985 bombing of a Black liberation group in which 11 people, including five children, were killed and an entire African American neighborhood burned to ashes. The commemoration of the city’s aerial bombing of the Move organization is being billed as a day of “reflection, observation and recommitment to the principle that all people are created equal”. It follows...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Philadelphia’s racist past resurfaced in recent weeks, with the public disclosure that the bones of one or two African American children killed by the city’s police in 1985 were being used in an online Princeton University course, “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology,” without the knowledge of their families. May 13th marks the 36th anniversary of the day the city of Philadelphia bombed its own citizens. On that day in 1985, police surrounded the home of MOVE, a radical Black liberation organization that was d...

Final Call News From left: Carlos Africa, Janet Africa, Janine Africa, Consuwella Africa, Eddie Africa. Photos: Michael Z. Muhammad PHILADELPHIA—Last year the Philadelphia City Council formally apologized for the May 13, 1985 police bombing, which killed six adults and five children and decimated 60 homes. Painful memories of the attack and other injustices perpetrated on the MOVE organization resurfaced recently, pulling a scab off an open wound when the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University acknowledged that for the past 36 years, anthropologists have been using the bones of...

Black scientists denounce racism at Penn Museum The following excerpts are from an April 28 statement regarding the unethical, possession and callous racist use of the remains of the children of MOVE who died in the 1985 state bombing of their home in Philadelphia: The Association of Black Anthropologists, the Society of Black Archaeologists and the Black in Bioanthropology Collective are painfully aware of the barbaric history of anthropology, especially when it comes to populations of peoples of African descent.  We know that our discipline has been mobilized to rationalize eugenics and w...