Bones of Black children killed in police bombing used in Ivy League anthropology course

Remains of those killed in 1985 Move bombing in Philadelphia serve as ‘case study’ in Princeton-backed course

The bones of Black children who died in 1985 after their home was bombed by Philadelphia police in a confrontation with the Black liberation group which was raising them are being used as a “case study” in an online forensic anthropology course presented by an Ivy League professor.

It has emerged that the physical remains of one, or possibly two, of the children who were killed in the aerial bombing of the Move organization in May 1985 have been guarded over the past 36 years in the anthropological collections of the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.

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TS Eliot’s hidden love letters reveal intense, heartbreaking affair

‘I tried to pretend that my love for you was dead, though I could only do so by pretending myself that my heart was dead,’ the poet wrote to Emily Hale

TS Eliot’s love letters to scholar Emily Hale, the great poet’s muse and source of “supernatural ecstasy” for more than 30 years, were released on Thursday amid fevered speculation and under tight security at an elegant library on the campus of the Ivy League’s Princeton University.

The Nobel laureate’s correspondence to Hale, whom he met when both were studying at Harvard University in 1912, has long been the fascination of Eliot scholars but remained hidden, on both the poet and Hale’s wishes, for 50 years after Hale’s death in 1969.

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There can be no peace at cost of Iran’s security

The vicious alliance between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump against Iran has become more evident more than ever. This alliance was something that Seyed Hossein Mousavian, former Iranian nuclear negotiator and now a researcher at Princeton University, had warned about immediately after Trump took the helm at the White House.

White House condemns ruling on Trump’s ‘Dreamers’ program

The White House on Wednesday sharply criticized a federal judge's ruling that the Trump administration must resume a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. While the government has 90 days to restate its arguments before the order takes effect, presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee characterized the ruling as "good news" for smuggling organizations and criminal networks and "horrible news for our national security."

Latest DACA ruling gives NJ Dreamers hope

Latest DACA ruling gives NJ Dreamers hope Immigrant advocates continue to stress the need for a permanent fix to protect young undocumented workers from deportation. Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: https://njersy.co/2HZ7miV A number of DACA Dreamers begin a 240-mile walk from New York to Washington D.C on their quest to get a permanent legislative fix for Dreamers.

Renowned expert on Middle East and terrorism to speak at Lander

William McCants '97, an expert on the Middle East, Islam and terrorism, will speak at Lander University in March as part of the university's Jackson Endowed Lecture Series. The highlight of his campus visit is a public lecture titled "Political Islam, Terrorism and ISIS: Reflections on American Foreign Policy," which will be held on Monday, Mar. 12, at 5 p.m. in the Abney Cultural Center Auditorium.

MSNBC’s Tur and Panel Lament No New Gun Control in 2017

On Thursday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, during the show's regular "The Lid" segment, substitute host Katy Tur and her three guests fretted over the failure of gun control advocates to pass any new gun laws in the aftermath of high-profile mass shootings in 2017. Even the lone Republican-leaning panel member -- MSNBC contributor Susan Del Percio -- was coming down on the left-leaning side of the issue as she also seemed unhappy with Congress moving ahead with expanding concealed carry rights nationwide.

This Thanksgiving, Thank Donald J. Trumpby Deroy Murdock This…

And much of it would be absent had the White House's current occupant not become president on November 8, 2016. The day after Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, Princeton University economist Paul Krugman called Trump's victory "the mother of all adverse effects."

A Presidential Report Card

There are many ways to judge a president-polls, approval ratings, legislative successes, foreign breakthroughs, memorable speeches, and historic moments. But there's a better way than any of these, and Fred Greenstein, a professor of politics emeritus at Princeton University, has developed it.

Ivy League schools brace for scrutiny of race in admissions

In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs.

Princeton to “re-educate” its male students

Princeton University is looking to hire an "Interpersonal Violence Clinician and Men's Engagement Manager." In addition to providing clinical support for the men at Princeton, "[t]he Manager will develop and implement men's programming initiatives geared toward enhancing awareness and challenging gender stereotypesa " If you want to apply for the job, you had better be a leftist.

Three Royal Navy sailors are arrested in Sicily

Meghan arrives just in time for Pippa's high-flying reception after Harry's 100-mile dash to pick her up: Actress ducks cameras to avoid stealing limelight at Spitfire finale to million dollar wedding 'This makes me want to puke': Trump loyalist Roger Stone slams President for accepting highest civilian honor from 'enemy' Saudis who 'financed 9/11' 'Every day he looks more and more like a complete moron': Trump officials 'complain about the president's behavior after he trash-talked James Comey to Russian officials' Conrad Hilton is released from jail after his parents post $90,000 bail and ask that he be sent to a psychiatric hospital upon his release Princeton University admissions officers wrote of Asian applicants as having 'very familiar profiles' and that they were difficult to differentiate Trump curtsies for the King: Donald is mocked on Twitter for crouching 'like a sparkly ... (more)

For Trump foes, Democratic gains may remain elusive

Passionate protests against Donald Trump's presidency have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well-positioned to retain their grip on power in the 2018 elections. While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats occupy most of the seats up for election in two years.

When America was great

A Syrian woman gestures through her tent window at an informal refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj on Jan. 28, the day after President Trump temporarily banned entry of refugees from Syria and six other predominantly Muslim countries. Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist, is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, a columnist for Al-Monitor and the director of the Community Media Network in Amman, Jordan.

Moss Point native and Princeton professor shares his post-election thoughts on President-elect Donald Trump

Last weekend, President-elect Donald Trump visited Mobile as part of his "Thank You" tour across the country. In August, the Mississippi Press spoke with Moss Point native Eddie S. Glaude Jr. , who chairs the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University and who penned a column for TIME titled, "My Democratic Problem With Voting for Hillary Clinton."

“Outraged for black womanhood” By Sir Ronald Sanders

After a lifetime in Caribbean and international politics, I thought the time had long since passed when I could be outraged by any event. But I was outraged last week and I continue to seethe over the fact that Pamela Ramsey Taylor , the director of a Clay County, West Virginia, non-profit who was removed from her post after she called Michelle Obama an " ape in heels " in a November Facebook post, will be re-instated in her job on December 23. What signal does this re-instatement send to Americans, black and white? Indeed, what statement does it make to the rest of the world? This is not only blatant racism getting a pass; it is a most disturbing endorsement of it.

‘Community swell’ needed to address racial justice and policing in America

More than two years after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the fraught relationship between law enforcement and African Americans continues to spark controversy and calls for action. This tension - and how to address the divide between communities and the police - were examined at a policy forum held Friday, Dec. 9, at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .