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Director Tommy Oliver talks with us about his new film "40 Years A Prisoner" about the 1985 bombing of the MOVE building in Philadelphia. Watch more: https://cbsloc.al/3mtG5Ic | CBS Philadelphia

Did you know the U.S. government bombed a Black neighborhood—in 1985? This is one of those Black history facts you didn’t know because they don’t want you to know it. In Philadelphia, police dropped a literal bomb on a home where members of the MOVE organization lived. Eleven people were killed—five of them children. 61 homes were destroyed. The fire department let it burn. It’s one of the most horrifying African American history facts—and one of the most buried. This is the kind of Black histor