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Metro Philadelphia10h
History column: Remembering the MOVE bombing 40 years later
On May 13, 1985, a bomb dropped by police ignited a blaze that would consume 61 homes, kill 11 people, and leave a ...
MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy | The Bomb
Police use everything in their arsenal to remove MOVE from their Philadelphia headquarters, finally dropping a bomb on the ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)3d
The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE
This week marked the 40th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Philadelphia’s history. In May 1985, the city’s police ...
The Triangle4d
Remembering the 1978 Powelton Village MOVE shootout
Powelton Village was taken hostage by MOVE, a revolutionary group. Today, there is nothing to commemorate the ensuing ...
Billy Penn6d
MOVE on? It’s hard; Mawn chef Q&A; Lincoln Drive slowdown | Morning roundup
The ongoing struggle over the meaning of the MOVE bombing Forty years after the city bombed the MOVE compound on Osage Avenue ...
Religion Dispatches6d
Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
Forty years ago today, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself. The city of Philadelphia let that fire burn for ...
The Source6d
The Source Magazine Remembers The MOVE 9 Bombing 40 Years Later
In the aftermath, nine MOVE members—Chuck, Debbie, Delbert, Eddie, Janet, Janine, Merle, Mike, and Phil Afrika—were convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms as the MOVE 9. Tensions with law ...
Opinion
The Philadelphia Citizen6dOpinion
The Fires Still Burn
Forty years after the City bombed a house, killed 11 MOVE members and destroyed a neighborhood, Philadelphia still has not reckoned with it ...