1985 MOVE bombing to be remembered as Philadelphia City Council calls for "reflection" 40 years later

May 13, 2025, will mark 40 years to the day after the MOVE bombing, when the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb on the headquarters of the Black liberation, back-to-nature group's Osage Avenue headquarters. The bomb started a fire that ended up destroying more than 60 row homes in the West Philadelphia neighborhood. Five children and six adults in the MOVE house were killed. All shared the adopted surname Africa.