Mourners of MOVE members killed in the bombing by the Philadelphia Police stand in front of their former headquarters. They raise their arms with the Black Power salute as the funeral procession for leader John Africa passes.
The remains of two Black children killed in an infamous 1985 Philadelphia police bombing have gone missing, with two Ivy League universities unable to confirm their whereabouts.
City lawmakers last year issued a formal apology for the attack on MOVE, a Black liberation advocacy group. The airstrike on a house occupied by MOVE members destroyed an entire block, reducing all the houses to rubble.
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Mourners of MOVE members killed in the 1985 bombing by the Philadelphia police stand in front of their former headquarters. They raise their arms with the Black Power salute during the funeral procession for leader John Africa. Bettmann Archive
The remains of two Black children killed in an infamous 1985 Philadelphia police bombing have gone missing, with two Ivy League universities unable to confirm their whereabouts.
City lawmakers last year issued a formal apology for the attack on MOVE, a Black liberation advocacy group. The airstrike on a house occupied by MOVE members destroyed an entire block, reducing all the houses to rubble.