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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. By Mike Africa Jr.
The remains of the MOVE bombing victims were thought to have been cremated in 2017. In May 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a bomb onto the compound of MOVE, killing six members, ...
Philadelphia Marks 30th Anniversary Of MOVE Bombing 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 ...
Twenty years ago Friday, police dropped a bomb on the Philadelphia headquarters of MOVE -- a small group of armed separatists who preached a back-to-nature philosophy. Eleven people died, and the ...
The bomb ignited a gasoline-fueled conflagration that killed the MOVE militants and children and obliterated two blocks of homes. Ramona Africa, then 29, and Birdie Africa, then 13, escaped with ...
MOVE bombing in Philadelphia is the inspiration of an opera; here's how to get tickets. Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 8:32 p.m. "We Shall Not Be Moved" premiered as part of the O17 festival in ...
PHILADELPHIA -- It's been almost a year since the City of Philadelphia announced it discovered the remains of some MOVE bombing victims and one man says he has still not received the remains of ...
The Philadelphia health commissioner, who ordered the remains of some people killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing to be destroyed in 2017, resigned on Thursday. But Mayor Jim Kenney confirmed Friday ...
Dr. Thomas Farley, left, resigned as Philadelphia’s health commissioner after acknowledging that he had authorized the cremation and disposal of human remains from the 1985 bombing of the MOVE ...
The bombing by Pennsylvania State Police against members of the MOVE activist group destroyed 61 homes at the time, and continues to define a marginalized section of the city.
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.
Philadelphia's top health official resigned Thursday after the city's mayor said he learned human remains from the 1985 bombing of the headquarters of a Black organization had been cremated and ...