Black Main Street Staff, Black Main Street The scene at the corner of 62nd and Larchwood on the afternoon of May 13, 1985, following the dropping of a bomb on MOVE headquarters. Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT/Landov.Featured Image On May 13, 1985, at approximately 5:28 p.m., two, one-pound bombs were dropped onto a house at 6221 Osage […]
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[WATCH] Activists Take Back The Street Named After The Black Mayor Who Bombed MOVE | Colorlines
Philadelphia recently named a street after the city’s first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode Sr. Activists say that the renaming hurts given that Goode facilitated the fatal 1985 bombing of the home where the Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE lived. Colorlines captured an October protest imbued with spirituality.
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On Osage Avenue, rebuilt homes to rise again from MOVE’s ashes
Philadelphia has yet another plan for Osage Avenue.
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