January 20, 2021
Cyndi Rickards, EdD, associate teaching professor in the Department of Criminology and Justice Studies (CJS) at Drexel University, always learns from having cross-curricular students in her classroom. Their diverse perspectives will inform the readings she assigns, the questions she asks and the curriculum she sets.
But following a “Places of Justice” class (CJS 262) previously offered to Pennoni Honors College students and taught side-by-side with members of the local Mantua and Powelton Village communities, Rickards heard from several students about how they wanted to do more to explore their chosen disciplines through the lens of social justice. In turn, she wanted to do more than just make tweaks for the next time she taught the class. Instead, she wanted to start something new.
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What Is MOVE And How Did Their Years-Long Battle With Philadelphia Police End In Tragedy?
MOVE, a revoluntionary back-to-nature group formed in the 1970s, had not one but two shocking and deadly encounters with Philadelphia police. Members of MOVE, a cult founded by John Africa, avoid being arrested as they gather in front of their house in the Powelton Village section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo: Getty Images
Racial injustice has taken center stage in 2020 but a new HBO documentary highlights another raciallycharged battle between Philadelphia police and a Black revolutionary, back-to-nature group that began nearly 50 years ago.
The years long-battle between the group MOVE and authorities left one police officer dead and sent nine of the group’s members, known as the MOVE 9, to prison for third-degree murder after a 1978 attempt to evict the group from their Philadelphia home. It culminated nearly seven yea