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Black Bones Matter: Notes Toward a Radical Humanism in Anthropology

Kamari Maxine Clarke

Anthropologica

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This paper discusses the MOVE organization, founded by Vincent Leaphart (John Africa) in West Philadelphia in the early 1970s. MOVE combined philosophies of Black nationalism, raw foods, urban farming, and opposition to modern science and capitalism. This community formation came to an end on May 13, 1985.