"Controversy Surrounds Burial of Black Philadelphians' Remains at Penn Museum"

The Penn Museum has entombed the remains of 19 Black Philadelphians from its Samuel G. Morton Cranial Collection in a mausoleum at Eden Cemetery, sparking controversy and criticism over the rushed and opaque process. The museum has pledged to repatriate hundreds of craniums from its collection, acknowledging the fraught legacy of plunder and the need to address artifacts and human remains collected without consent. The interment was accompanied by a public commemoration, but questions and tensions persist surrounding the entombment and the broader repatriation process.