“Delisha’s mother, Janet Africa, deserves to know where her child’s sacred remains are.”
MOVE Bombing
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How the Possession of Human Remains Led to a Public Reckoning at the Penn Museum
Philadelphia activists, UPenn students, and journalists contributed to the reckoning centering the museum’s holdings of the remains of MOVE bombing victims.
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Penn Museum Apologizes for Holding Remains of MOVE Bombing Victims
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
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
The bones of Black Philadelphians killed in the 1985 airstrike have been kept at the museum for decades.
