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Princeton University apologizes for mistreatment of 1985 MOVE bombing victims’ remains Updated 3:08 PM; Princeton University is apologizing for its role in mishandling bones of victims of the 1985 bombing of the MOVE organization in Philadelphia that were never returned to the family. Retired Princeton Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Alan Mann was in custody of remains of children who were killed in the police bombings, which burned two city blocks and left 11 people dead. He was hired in 2000 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he began his attempts to identify remains and conti...

After an Uproar, the Penn Museum Will Return the Suspected Remains of a Black Teenage Girl Who Died in a 1985 Police Bombing An online course in which the remains were used as a case study has stirred up controversy for the Philadelphia institution.  April 27, 2021 Smoke billows over rowhouses in the West Philadelphia after the police bombed the home of the radical African American organization MOVE during a standoff, via Getty Images. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is embroiled in a controversy over its possession of the remains of a teenage girl who...

On top of Philly news MOVE members mourn their children’s lives as Penn Museum apologizes for storing remains University administrators now say they want to “reunite” the remains with their family — but it’s still unclear where they are. Consuela Africa (right) breaks down talking about the bombing of their family and the withholding of their children’s remains, next to Pam Africa (center), and Janine Africa (right) Kimberly Paynter / WHYY �� Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn newsletter to get everything you need to k...

Then, this week, WHYY's Billy Penn published a story saying that human remains from the bombing, believed to be those of two children, sat in a cardboard box on a shelf at Penn’s Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for years. Originally, they’d been entrusted to a Penn anthropologist, Alan Mann, so that he could verify their identities. Yet decades later, apparently because Mann was unable to conclusively identify them, they had had not been returned to family members. Mann took a job at Princeton in 2001 and brought the remains with him. Janet Monge, Mann’s former st...

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. 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 advocacy group. The airstrike on a house occupied by MOVE members destroyed an entire block, reducing...