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For decades, the University of Pennsylvania has held hundreds of skulls that once were used to promote white supremacy through racist scientific research. As part of a growing effort among museums to reevaluate the curation of human remains, the Ivy League school laid some of the remains to rest last week, specifically those identified as belonging to 19 Black Philadelphians. The university says it is trying to begin rectifying past wrongs.

The museum is among a number of state institutions that have made moves to adhere to newly updated federal guidelines to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which require “informed consent” from affiliated tribal representatives before exhibiting or doing research on cultural items.

New Department of the Interior rules designed to protect Native American culture, is having the opposite effect with museums shuttering exhibits and activists fighting woke renaming policies. 

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For decades, the University of Pennsylvania has held hundreds of skulls that once were used to promote white supremacy through racist scientific research. As part of a growing effort among museums to reevaluate the curation of human remains, the Ivy League school laid some of the remains to rest last week, specifically those identified as […]