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Carl E. Singley works at Tucker Law Group, considered the region’s largest Black-owned firm.
Protesters demonstrated this week outside Penn Museum over the handling of the recently revealed MOVE remains Kimberly Paynter / WHYY Apr. 30, 2021, 7:45 a.m. Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day.
A week after news broke that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University held, studied, boxed and shelved human remains identified as children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing, UPenn has launched an internal investigation led by Black-owned Tucker Law Group.
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Pam Africa described police abuse her family experienced at a protest outside the Penn Museum on April 28, 2021, over the museum’s mistreatment of the remains of children Tree and Delisha Africa who were killed when Philadelphia police dropped explosives on MOVE s headquarters in 1985. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
More than 100 people rallied Wednesday evening in front of Penn Museum to call on the University of Pennsylvania to immediately return remains belonging to children who died in the 1985 MOVE bombing.
“They’ve been doing this to our Black bodies for hundreds of years, in the name of science, in the name of study,” said YahNé Ndgo, striking a chord with the crowd. “We are not subjects of study, we are human beings!”
Viewpoint ITV: How many episodes of the drama are there?
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ITV will air the first episode of their gripping new drama Viewpoint tonight.
Viewpoint cast as ITV drama looks set to grip viewers over consecutive nights chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In addition to the unpreparedness, the response remained tame as many who stormed the Capitol left
the building. Police in Washington reported a preliminary total of 69 arrests Wednesday, and most were accused of violating the city’s 6 p.m. curfew. U.S. Capitol Police made 14 arrests; 11 were charged with unlawfully entering the Capitol. Between May 30 and June 4 of last year, when Black Lives Matter protests gripped the nation, D.C. Metropolitan Police reported 427 arrests for curfew violations, burglaries, and other “riot-related events,” according to the department. On June 1, when Trump wanted to take a photo in front of St. John’s Church, U.S. Park Police teargassed a crowd of peaceful demonstrators in Lafayette Park to clear the way.