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Remains of Black children killed in MOVE bombing used in Ivy League classes Philadelphia apologized for causing “immeasurable and enduring harm” Loading the player... The University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University are facing backlash for using the remains of Black children killed in the MOVE bombing in their Ivy League courses. The city of Philadelphia bombed MOVE, a Black liberation group, on May 13, 1985, with a device that is generally used in combat and used water cannons after a days-long standoff. Former Mayor W. Wilson Goode Sr. approved the deadly use of force which res...

Decades After Police Bombing, Philadelphians ‘Sickened’ by Handling of Victim’s Bones The disclosure that anthropologists at two Ivy League universities had kept bones from a victim of the 1985 MOVE bombing infuriated its members as well as city leaders. The police, firefighters and workers searching the rubble on Osage Avenue after the police bombing that killed 11 people and destroyed dozens of homes.Credit...George Widman/Associated Press April 24, 2021, 9:06 a.m. ET In the early evening of May 13, 1985, the police flew a helicopter over a crowded West Philadelphia neighborh...

After the MOVE bombing in 1985, when the Philadelphia Police Department killed 11 adults and five children by dropping a bomb on a house, two of the children’s bodies were handed over for analysis to a forensic anthropologist. To the horror of online activists, he never gave them back. Featured Video Hide MOVE is a Black liberation and environmentalist group that was designated a terrorist organization by former Philadelphia Police Commissioner Gregore J. Sambor and Mayor Wilson Goode. Advertisement Hide The bombing was the culmination of a siege in ...

Bones of Black Children Killed by Police Used as Teaching Tool in Princeton Course On 4/23/21 at 8:17 AM EDT The bones of at least one and possibly two Black children killed in a police bombing in 1985 have been in the custody of two universities for decades as a teaching tool and are now apparently missing. Philadelphia police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a residential home occupied by members of MOVE, a Black liberation organization, on May 13, 1985, killing eleven people, including five children from the ages of 7 to 14. All members of MOVE take "Africa" as their surname. It has n...

Mourners of MOVE members killed in the bombing by the Philadelphia Police stand in front of their former headquarters. They raise their arms with the Black Power salute as the funeral procession for leader John Africa passes. 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 a...