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PHILADELPHIA — For decades, the University of Pennsylvania has held hundreds of skulls that once were used to promote white supremacy through racist scientific research. “The same institution that has been holding and exerting control for years over these captive ancestors is not the same institution that can give them ceremony.” Woods told the crowd at Saturday’s interfaith commemoration at …
Penn Museum Apologizes For 'Unethical Possession Of Human Remains' Enlarge this image toggle caption R. Perez/Penn Museum R. Perez/Penn Museum Dozens of human skulls of Black people — some hundreds of years old — will be returned to their communities of origin for reburial, according to a commitment by the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. "The Penn …