‘Timestamp on our minds’: Philadelphia marks 1985 Move bombing that killed 11

Police bombing targeting Black liberation group ignited fire that killed 11, including five children, and burned 61 housesPhiladelphia is holding an official day of remembrance on Tuesday marking the moment 40 years earlier when the city’s police department dropped a bomb on the headquarters of a Black liberation organisation, sparking an inferno that killed 11 people – including five children.The police bombing of the home of the Move organization on 13 May 1985 was one of the worst atrocities carried out during the era of the 1970s and 1980s Black liberation struggle. It followed a prolonged siege in which the notoriously brutal Philadelphia police attempted to drive the group out of its premises at 6221 Osage Avenue. Continue reading...

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