MOVE

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/13/2021
  

  The Shocking MOVE Bombing was Part of a Broader Pattern of Anti-Black Racism

  by J.T. Roane

  The Philadelphia Police Department bears responsibility for the deadly bombing of the rowhouse occupied by MOVE members, but the carnage shows a long pattern of indifference by multiple municipal departments to the health, safety, and quality of life of Black residents in the 1970s and 1980s. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/29/2021
  

  Both Ivy League Colleges Apologize for ‘Serious Error’ in Using Bones of Black Child for Teaching

  The two Ivy League universities at the center of a billowing storm over the use in anthropology teaching of the bones of an African American child killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 have apologized for the “serious error”, promising to return the human remains to relatives who never consented to the practice.

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• SOURCE: Daily Princetonian
  4/26/2021
  

  Princeton Owes the Families of the MOVE Bombing Victims Answers

  by Judith Weisenfeld, Ruha Benjamin et al.

  Members of the Princeton faculty argue that "the victims of the MOVE bombing, their families, and those of us at Princeton invested in Black history and communities deserve more" than the university's statements to date about the use of remains of the victims. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  4/26/2021
  

  The MOVE Bombing and the Callous Handling of Black Remains

  by Jessica Parr

  The remains of the victims of the Philadelphia Police Department's bombing of the MOVE organization in 1985, including two children, were acquired by the University of Pennsylvania, stored outside of climate control, passed on to Princeton, and eventually lost, a final indignity to the victims. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/13/2020
  

  35 Years After MOVE Bombing That Killed 11, Philadelphia Apologizes

  Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a row house occupied by members of a Black militant group in 1985, starting a fire that destroyed 60 homes and killed 11 people.  

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• SOURCE: Paris Review
  10/5/2020
  

  Memory Haunts: John Edgar Wideman's Fictionalized Account of the 1985 MOVE Bombing

  by Imani Perry

  Wideman's account of events leading to the bombing of MOVE by Philadelphia police "is not just a map of the city but of the nation and our collective condition."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/13/19
  

  30 Years Later, Making Sense Of The MOVE Bombing

  City police had killed nearly a dozen people and, in the process, leveled an entire swath of a neighborhood full of middle-class black homeowners.