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Save this story for later. The police bombing of 6221 Osage Avenue, in Philadelphia, caused a level of trauma that is difficult to exaggerate. On May 13, 1985, while many of the city’s residents were still basking in the glow of the previous afternoon’s Mother’s Day gatherings, hundreds of heavily armed police officers surrounded a row house in a Black neighborhood in West Philadelphia. After firing thousands of rounds of ammunition and cannisters of noxious tear gas into the home, they f...

MOVE ‘Day of Remembrance’ honors lives lost By Betsey Piette posted on May 14, 2021 Philadelphia On the 36th anniversary of the horrific bombing of the MOVE family house in Philadelphia on May 13, 1985, hundreds gathered at Osage Ave. and Cobbs Creek Parkway at a plaque commemorating the event.  Speakers focused on naming and remembering the lives of the six adults and five children murdered by the repressive state. Pam Africa (left) and Mike Africa, Jr, lead march through West Philadelp...

Bettmann Archive Philadelphia’s city health commissioner resigned this week after saying he cremated and disposed of some of the remains of the 1985 MOVE bombing victims. However, on Friday, it was unclear what exactly had happened as the city announced that the remains were discovered in a refrigerated section of the Medical Examiner’s Office. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said Thursday that Dr. Thomas Farley resigned effective Wednesday. He made the announcement on the 36th anniversary of...

Philly Health Chief Ousted On MOVE Bombing Anniversary For Discarding Victims Remains Health Commissioner Thomas Farley was forced to resign after cremating victims remains from the 1985 police attack instead of returning them to family. The head of Philadelphia’s public health department was forced to resign on Thursday for mishandling the remains of victims of the MOVE bombing, a racist act of police violence that happened on this exact day 36 years ago. Mayor Jim Kenney announced that he h...

On top of Philly news Remains of children killed in MOVE bombing sat in a box at Penn Museum for decades Where are they now, and who is responsible for them? No one seems to know. Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania Emma Lee / WHYY Apr. 21, 2021, 3:30 p.m. �� Love Philly? Sign up for the free Billy Penn email newsletter to get everything you need to know about Philadelphia, every day. No one seems to be sure what happened to...

  Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) on Thursday announced that he asked the city’s health commissioner to resign after learning that he had cremated and disposed of some remains belonging to victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing without family consent. Kenney said in a statement that it was only this week when he learned that health commissioner Thomas Farley discovered remains in the medical examiner’s office back in 2017 belonging to victims in the police bombing, who were members of the Blac...

Philadelphia on Thursday marks the city’s first official day of remembrance for the 1985 bombing of a Black liberation group in which 11 people, including five children, were killed and an entire African American neighborhood burned to ashes. The commemoration of the city’s aerial bombing of the Move organization is being billed as a day of “reflection, observation and recommitment to the principle that all people are created equal”. It follows...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Philadelphia’s racist past resurfaced in recent weeks, with the public disclosure that the bones of one or two African American children killed by the city’s police in 1985 were being used in an online Princeton University course, “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology,” without the knowledge of their families. May 13th marks the 36th anniversary of the day the city of Philadelphia bombed its own citizens. On that...

Final Call News From left: Carlos Africa, Janet Africa, Janine Africa, Consuwella Africa, Eddie Africa. Photos: Michael Z. Muhammad PHILADELPHIA—Last year the Philadelphia City Council formally apologized for the May 13, 1985 police bombing, which killed six adults and five children and decimated 60 homes. Painful memories of the attack and other injustices perpetrated on the MOVE organization resurfaced recently, pulling a scab off an open wound when the University of Pennsylvania and Prince...

Black scientists denounce racism at Penn Museum The following excerpts are from an April 28 statement regarding the unethical, possession and callous racist use of the remains of the children of MOVE who died in the 1985 state bombing of their home in Philadelphia: The Association of Black Anthropologists, the Society of Black Archaeologists and the Black in Bioanthropology Collective are painfully aware of the barbaric history of anthropology, especially when it comes to populations of people...