Searching for Justice, 35 Years After Katricia Dotson Was Killed by the Police
Katricia Dotson’s remains were studied, disputed, displayed and litigated. Lost in the controversy was the life of an American girl and her family.
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Katricia Dotson’s remains were studied, disputed, displayed and litigated. Lost in the controversy was the life of an American girl and her family.
On top of Philly news Remains of children killed in MOVE bombing sat in a box at Penn Museum for decades Where are they now, and who is responsible for them? No one seems to know. Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania Emma Lee / WHYY Apr. 21, 2021, 3:30 p.m. �� Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn email newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day. No one seems to be sure what happened to a set of remains thought to be two children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing. For decades, the bones...
In a 2019 video tutorial produced by Princeton, students watched the smiling white anthropologist Janet Monge and a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate hold a human pelvic bone and a femur up to the camera as rows of human skulls, backlit and neatly lined up in wooden cabinets, rested behind them. The bones the two held, transferred between universities over decades, likely belong to Delisha Africa and Katricia “Tree” Africa, two Black children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing, in which the city of Philadelphia dropped a satchel bomb on a row house occupied by the Black liberation gro...
It’s No Surprise the Remains of Black Children Killed by Police Ended Up in a Princeton Class Slate 4/30/2021 Elaine Ayers © Bettmann via Getty Times Supporters of MOVE conduct an anniversary march through the Osage Street neighborhood in Philadelphia on May 13, 1986, one year to the day after police bombed a MOVE house, destroying 61 homes and killing 11 MOVE members. Bettmann via Getty Times In a 2019 video tutorial produced by Princeton, students watched the smiling white anthropologist Janet Monge and a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate hold a human pelvic bo...
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...