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 which tear gas, water cannons, and 10,000 rounds of ammunition were fired on the house that had 12 adult MOVE members and six children inside. The bomb set the house on fire, and the commissioner prevented firefighters from responding, reportedly ordering them to “let the fire burn.”
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Controversial Collection – The Penn Museum, which just last week pledged to return stolen skulls of enslaved people in its Morton Collection, is under fire for another holding: the remains of Black Philadelphians killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing, a police airstrike taken out against members of the Black liberation movement. (Eleven people, including five children, died while a fire spread to 60 more homes in the predomi
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Dozens of human skulls of Black people some hundreds of years old will be returned to their communities of origin for reburial, according to a commitment by the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
On Monday, the Penn Museum issued both an apology for possessing the skulls in its historic Morton Collection and outlined a plan to repatriate them.
“The Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania apologize for the unethical possession of human remains in the Morton Collection,” wrote Dr. Christopher Woods, who became the new director of Penn Museum on April 1. “It is time for these individuals to be returned to their ancestral communities, wherever possible, as a step toward atonement and repair for the racist and colonial practices that were integral to the formation of these collections.”
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Pennsylvania Museum Apologises For Collecting Skulls Of Black Americans
A museum in Pennsylvania apologised for collecting the skulls of Black Americans. The museum also vowed to return the skulls to their communities.
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A museum in Pennsylvania on Monday, April 12, apologised for collecting the skulls of Black Americans. The museum also vowed to return the skulls to their respective communities. The director of Penn Museum, Dr. Christopher Woods, issued a statement in which he expressed regret and on behalf of the museum and the University of Pennsylvania of Archaeology and Anthropology. “The Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania apologize for the unethical possession of human remains in the Morton Collection”, said Dr. Woods.