History

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated war graves with blooming flowers.

A two-episode podcast by WHYY News explores the exclusive story of a helicopter pilot who warned the city that “the bunker’s no threat” before the police dropped the bomb.

Forty years on, journalists, activists and archivists discussed who does the telling, and how.

The bombing on May 13, 1985 claimed the lives of 11 people, including five children, and decimated an entire block in Cobbs Creek.

Investigative reporter Linn Washington remembers the MOVE bombing 40 years later .

A West Philly school founder shares the story of how students led a campaign to install a historical marker at the site of the 1985 MOVE bombing.

The Citadel CEO's first-edition copies will be placed in a new public exhibit, marking the center’s largest renovation since it opened in 2003.

Exclusive: WHYY News' Tom MacDonald uncovers new details from the helicopter pilot who flew above the MOVE compound in 1985

After five weeks of hearings with more than 90 witnesses, the MOVE Commission determined the city’s bombing was an “unconscionable” act.

The empty visitor center shaped like a flying saucer comes to life with nightly film projections about Philly immigrants.

The 1985 bombing claimed the lives of 11 people, including five children, and destroyed dozens of homes in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia.

The original “Cato” was a favorite play of George Washington. Philadelphia Artists’ Collective reimagines it with a critical lens.

An 1859 fantasy of Black material culture is manifested as a “funhouse” of art and cultural criticism at Winterthur.

Queen Elizabeth II gifted the bell to the United States from Great Britain during her July 1976 visit.

The city’s “Phambassador” program asks people to pledge to “love their city” as it prepares for waves of visitors in 2026.