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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 MOVE's 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 1985 MOVE bombing. “They’ve been doing this to our Black bodies for hundreds of years, in the name...

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 Penn and a visiting professor at Princeton. Alan Mann, who is now a professor emeritus at Princeton,...

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 Ivy League school’s museum for decades held onto the remains. In a series of statements, the u...

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 Penn Museum was in possession of the remains first aired in an opinion piece by Abdul-Aliy Muhammad in ...