Daniel Rubin

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Daniel Rubin

Description: MOVE relocates to Cobbs Creek, a predominantly Black middle-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, disrupting life as its residents know it. Former neighbors recount the rising tensions between MOVE and the residents of Philadelphia’s 6221 Osage Avenue, as MOVE employs new disruptive tactics — including a bullhorn, vermin, and a bunker — in their fight to free imprisoned members. Subscribe to “MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Daniel Rubin

Description: Conflict between MOVE and the Philadelphia Police escalates. Former Daily News reporter Linn Washington and civil rights activist Walt Palmer take us through the events leading up to the 1978 Powelton Village shootout, and the incarceration of the MOVE Nine. Subscribe to “MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

3 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Daniel Rubin

Description: In 1970s Philadelphia, John Africa thinks he has a solution to the problems plaguing the city — extreme back-to-nature living. He founds MOVE, and the organization begins its fraught relationship with Police Commissioner — and eventual Mayor of Philadelphia — Frank Rizzo. Subscribe to “MOVE: Untangling the Tragedy” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Episode transcriptALLISON BECK: CONTENT WARNING, THIS SERIES CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF ABUSE, TRAUMA, AND FOUL LANGUAGE.

1 month ago | inquirer.com | Daniel Rubin

On the morning of May 13, 1985, the city dropped a satchel bomb on the roof of a rowhouse in West Philadelphia in the hopes of flushing a radical, Black-led, back-to-nature group called MOVE from its compound, a decision that led to the deaths of 11 people — five of them children — and the destruction of a neighborhood. What amazes Yvonne Latty, director of Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting, is how many Philadelphians don’t know this happened.

Feb 6, 2025 | theadvocate.com | Daniel Rubin |Will Sutton

PHILADELPHIA — I’m not sure how much traction you’re going to get by warning visiting Eagles fans not to climb the quaint light poles of the French Quarter. I recommend vats of Crisco, hydraulic fluid or baby oil. That’s helped here in Philly, although our finest weren’t fully prepared for the celebration that exploded Jan. 26 after the Eagles ran over the Washington Commanders in the NFC Championship. An 18-year-old Temple gymnast died after falling from an ungreased pole he climbed in Center City.