M.O.V.E. 41 Years Later: The Ghost of Brotherly Love | EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More

M.O.V.E. 41 Years Later: The Ghost of Brotherly Love | EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More

MOVE 41 Years Later *Forty-one years later, I can still hear the helicopters. I was a 9-year-old student in West Philadelphia when the city I called home transformed into a war zone. Long before America normalized militarized policing, armored tactics, and state violence, televised in Black communities, I witnessed something no child should ever see: a government preparing to bomb its own citizens. May 13, 1985. The City of Brotherly Love became…