Justice for Delisha Africa and other MOVE family members killed by Philadelphia police
Mike Africa of the MOVE organization held a press conference to make demands of University of Pennsylvania and city officials concerning the remains of MOVE children and adults killed in 1985 by Philadelphia police.
Mike Africa and city councilmember Jamie Gauthier (3rd District) are calling on the University of Pennsylvania's museum to return the remains of Delisha Africa, a 12-year-old girl who was killed in the 1985 city bombing of a MOVE home in Philadelphia's Cobbs Creek neighborhood.
Mike Africa said at Monday’s press conference in Gauthier’s office that he will ask for the return of Delisha Africa’s remains to her mother or her sister, Yvonne Orr-El, who also spoke.
“We want full transparency and accountability of the actions of Penn Museum, Princeton and Smithsonian in their involvement in receiving, examining and using our family’s remains as teaching tools and fundraising materials,” he said.
Africa demanded the arrest of Penn anthropologists Alan Mann and Janet Monge for “using the remains of young Black girls who died such tragic and public deaths, to make YouTube videos and allowing students to write dissertations about their body parts, without the consent of their family members.”
Africa also called for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Justice for Delisha Africa and other MOVE family members killed by Philadelphia police
Mike Africa of the MOVE organization held a press conference to make demands of University of Pennsylvania and city officials concerning the remains of MOVE children and adults killed in 1985 by Philadelphia police.
Mike Africa and city councilmember Jamie Gauthier (3rd District) are calling on the University of Pennsylvania's museum to return the remains of Delisha Africa, a 12-year-old girl who was killed in the 1985 city bombing of a MOVE home in Philadelphia's Cobbs Creek neighborhood.
Mike Africa said at Monday’s press conference in Gauthier’s office that he will ask for the return of Delisha Africa’s remains to her mother or her sister, Yvonne Orr-El, who also spoke.
“We want full transparency and accountability of the actions of Penn Museum, Princeton and Smithsonian in their involvement in receiving, examining and using our family’s remains as teaching tools and fundraising materials,” he said.
Africa demanded the arrest of Penn anthropologists Alan Mann and Janet Monge for “using the remains of young Black girls who died such tragic and public deaths, to make YouTube videos and allowing students to write dissertations about their body parts, without the consent of their family members.”
Africa also called for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal.