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The News Beat podcast presents “This Week In Social Justice,” streaming live Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET. on Facebook, YouTube and Twitch. This episode's topics: The May 13, 1985 bombing of MOVE activists in Philly & the illegal theft & use of bones & human remains from African Americans, the poor, the enslaved, Indigenous Peoples & even little children Our very special guest(s) for this episode: Samuel J. Redman, an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and author of ‘Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums’ (2016) and ‘Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology,’ available for preorder now, and out in October on Harvard University Press We’ll talk to Redman about the recent gruesome discovery that some Ivy League schools were using the bones of a murdered 14-year-old African American child as a teaching prop, and put this horror into some context regarding the illegal theft and use of hundreds of thousands of poor, enslaved, Indigenous and Black and Brown folks by revered U.S. historical and medical institutions, and much more. Join us weekly on this live, interactive program to share your thoughts on recent news and ongoing issues as we welcome special guests, break down important issues, and sprinkle in our unique brand of Hip Hop-fueled journalism along the way www.usnewsbeat.com/watch Support the show: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=EYkdQRkbZ6vNTGfNSGWZjx7_15orqqDl8vkmrAg3TkxLprft1OguFwxlheC3tAkNd-KVPG&country.x=US&locale.x=US See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.