BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) —According to Mike Africa Jr., a MOVE member, two Ivy League universities have been using the remains of two Black children killed in a police bombing for educational purposes without knowledge or consent from family members.
In May of 1985, Philadelphia police used a helicopter to drop a bomb over the MOVE organization, a Black liberation group, who were living in a row-home.
Eleven people were killed, including five children. More than 60 homes were destroyed.
Mike Africa Jr., grew up with the victims and shares how he remembers the young girls.
.@Penn and @Princeton are under fire for having the human remains of victims of the 1985 Philadelphia MOVE bombing without knowledge of the families. @MikeAfricaJr1 of @OnaMOVE_ grew up with two of the suspected victims. "We spent years together in Virginia," he says. pic.twitter.com/Tev31drLTj
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 27, 2021
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Dr. Raymond Winbush, a research professor and the Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University joins Farajii Muhammad for the discussion.
