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Best of 2020: Philadelphia's deadly MOVE bombing and me Our 2020 retrospective continues with this essay by a child of MOVE activists about why apologies aren't enough ...
The partial remains of victims of a 1985 bombing that were thought to have been improperly cremated and destroyed have been found, Philadelphia’s mayor said.
On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb on the home of a group of African-American activists who were disrupting a neighborhood, killing 11 people.
A dark period in Philadelphia is the inspiration of an opera being screened for free during the O18 opera festival in the City of Brotherly Love.
Gerri Bostic lost all her material possessions 25 years ago when police dropped a bomb on her block, killing five children and six adult members of the militant group MOVE and incinerating 61 row ...
A police helicopter dropped a bomb on a Philadelphia rowhouse 35 years ago. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with City Council member Jamie Gauthier about the resolution to issue an apology for the bombing.
The book reveals the untold stories of the bombing of Philadelphia's residential Cobbs Creek neighborhood, which housed Black-led civil liberties organization MOVE.
Credit: Max Mester After a yearlong investigation on the handling of the remains of the 1985 MOVE Bombing victims, investigators remain unable to explain how a box of victims’ remains managed to lay ...
The brother of two of the victims in the 1985 MOVE bombing has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia and UPenn.
The brother of two Black teenagers killed in Philadelphia’s 1985 MOVE bombings is suing the city and the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, claiming his sisters’ remains were ...
Activism / StudentNation / Mike Africa Jr. was only 6 years old when Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on 6221 Osage Avenue. But he remembers everything. Hannah Epstein This story was produced ...