Decades after MOVE bombing in Philly, a surviving son wants to preserve group’s legacy Published: Sep. 02, 2024, 10:34 a.m. FILE - In May of 1985, scores of row houses burn in a fire in the West ...

The opera, presented by Opera Philadelphia with the Apollo Theater, had its world premiere Sept. 16. It revisits the house at the center of the bombing and its impact on Philadelphia's youth today.

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.

Tensions between police and MOVE, a Black liberation group, had been brewing since the 1970s and culminated with the deadly bombing in West Philadelphia on May 13, 1985 after city officials ...

Tuesday marks 40 years since the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a rowhome in Cobbs Creek. The resulting fire was allowed to burn and spread to ...

Who was six at the time of the bombing, is now working as the legacy director of MOVE. He's reunited with his parents, who were released from prison in 2018 but remain on parole.

35 Years After MOVE Bombing That Killed 11, Philadelphia Apologizes. ... “The plan to bomb the MOVE house was reckless, ill-conceived and hastily approved,” the commission’s report said in 1986.

On May 10, 2020, former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode made a formal apology, in the form of an op-ed in The Guardian, for an atrocity that happened on his watch. It had been almost 35 years to ...

Speaker, writer and activist Mike Africa Jr. takes readers back to 1985 in his new book, "On a Move: Philadelphia's Notorious Bombing and a Native Son's Lifelong Battle for Justice." ...

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, ...

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.