40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV

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40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV

We're coming up on 40 years since the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a row house. The bombing and the fire it set unfolded on live television. And even though eleven people were killed and hundreds were left homeless by the fires, the MOVE bombing has been largely forgotten. How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?On this episode, we're looking back at this forgotten cataclysm with two people whose lives have been shaped by that catastrophe.Mike ..