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Penn Museum apologizes for allowing the use of human remains of Black Philadelphians in an online class

This month the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology outlined a series of recommendations for the repatriation and reburial of human remains in the Samuel G. Morton Cranial Collection, consisting more than 1,000 human skulls amassed in the 1830s-40s by a natural scientist and anatomy lecturer who used them to compare the brain…

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