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NEVER FORGET

On May 13, 1985 city police dropped a bomb on 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia and let it burn. Five children and six adults, members of a small radical collective called MOVE, died; 61 homes in a middle-class neighborhood were destroyed. As the nation watched, Philadelphia became the city that bombed its own people.

A generation later, MOVE is still around, its members still agitating for the release of eight who have been in prison since a 1978 cop-killing. Most of the other two dozen or so members, all of whom take the surname Africa, live in a house 3 miles from Osage. The mayor who approved the bombing, Wilson Goode, 66, is a pastor who runs a youth-mentoring program. And the residents of Osage Avenue are still trying to get their homes back and still live haunted by the tragedy every single day.

 Watch clips from the documentary MOVE: Confrontation in Philadelphia here.