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Elsie Wise, civic leader, founder of West Powelton Steppers & Drum Squad, dies at 92
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Report: West Philadelphia renters face a growing risk of displacement
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Kendra Bowden-Ponder, her husband Quan and their three children Ja’Lissa, 6, Jordyn, 1, and Kayleb, 10 months, are facing eviction. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Kendra Bowden-Ponder’s boxes are packed. The mother of three born and raised in West Philadelphia is preparing to leave the community where she has spent most of her life and she needs to find somewhere else to go fast.
After a rough 2020 wherein she and her husband both lost their jobs due to the pandemic, the family’s landlord is evicting them from their Mill Creek home.
Bowden-Ponder said the stress of trying to find a new home is all-encompassing. Her three kids haven’t been sleeping through the night. She tries to soothe their anxieties by doing a lot of family activities like having “experiment night” where they cook a meal they’ve never tried before or having impromptu dance parties in the living room.
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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