Controversy Erupts Over Penn Museum’s Possession of MOVE Bombing Victims’ Remains
Last week, the University of Pennsylvania museum apologized for hosting the stolen remains of enslaved people. by Hakim Bishara April 22, 2021 The Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia ( Windell Oskay/Flickr ) Just over a week after the Penn Museum apologized for hosting the stolen skulls of enslaved people in its Morton Collection, it is now embroiled in a second controversy involving its possession of remains of Black Philadelphians killed in the MOVE Bombing . According to reports yesterday, April 21, in the local news outlets BillyPenn and the Philadelphia Inquirer , the remains of victims of the 1985 bombing had been stored at the museum for decades, later to be moved back and forth between Penn and Princeton University. Eleven people, including five children, were killed in a police airstrike against members of the Black liberation movement MOV