By Cherranda Smith
Apr 23, 2021
On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police department bombed the shared home of a Black liberation group, MOVE, killing 11 people including five children. The remains of those children are reportedly now being used in an anthropology course backed by Princeton University.
The Guardian, both Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania have been in possession of the one or two of the children killed in the bombing since 1985 in their anthropological collections.
In 2019, the schools started using the bones in classes, without the permission of the children’s living parents.
The outlet reported the remains are being used in a class entitled Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology that explores “lost personhood” cases where a person can’t be identified because of the condition of their remains.
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