News Decades after MOVE bombing in Philly, a surviving son wants to preserve group’s legacy Published: Sep. 02, 2024, 10:34 a.m.

"I've heard one person say that the bombing of the MOVE house was like a Sept. 11 event for, you know, people in the city of Philly," he says, "that they'll always remember where they were, and ...

It's been 40 years since the 1985 MOVE bombing, an event that changed Philadelphia forever and remains a dark moment in the city's history. MOVE was a Philadelphia Black liberation group led by ...

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 ...

On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a satchel bomb on 6221 Osage Ave. in West Philadelphia, where some members of the Black liberation advocacy group MOVE lived. 11 people were ...

THE MOVE BOMBING. It was a standoff years in the making at 6221 Osage Avenue — the headquarters of a group called MOVE. The neighbors were fed up. The cops had warrants. And the members of the ...

A legacy of disrespect. The 1985 MOVE bombing stands as a stark reminder of institutional violence against Black communities.

Speaking to the New York Times, activist and MOVE member Mike Africa Jr., who was 6 years old at the time of the bombing and remembers Delisha and Tree, expressed feelings of “anger, fury ...

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.