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MOVE Bombing

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Decades After Philadelphia’s MOVE Bombing, Penn Museum Still Keeps Secrets on the Remains of 12-Year-Old Girl

by Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad April 20, 2022April 27, 2022

“Delisha’s mother, Janet Africa, deserves to know where her child’s sacred remains are.”

Posted inArt

How the Possession of Human Remains Led to a Public Reckoning at the Penn Museum

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Kinjal Dave and Jake Nussbaum October 31, 2021January 14, 2022

Philadelphia activists, UPenn students, and journalists contributed to the reckoning centering the museum’s holdings of the remains of MOVE bombing victims.

Posted inNews

Penn Museum Apologizes for Holding Remains of MOVE Bombing Victims

by Hakim Bishara April 27, 2021April 29, 2021

The museum has not yet addressed demands to terminate the curator who was in charge of the remains.

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Penn Museum Kept Remains of MOVE Bombing Victim; Now, Activists Call for Curator’s Firing

by Hakim Bishara April 23, 2021April 28, 2021

Janet Monge used the victim’s remains in an online course titled “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology.”

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Controversy Erupts Over Penn Museum’s Possession of MOVE Bombing Victims’ Remains

by Hakim Bishara April 22, 2021April 28, 2021

The bones of Black Philadelphians killed in the 1985 airstrike have been kept at the museum for decades.

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