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Mike Africa Jr.
Mike Africa Jr. is a member of the MOVE 9, a group of black liberation activists who were imprisoned for the 1978 killing of a Philadelphia police officer. He was born and raised in the MOVE commune and spent 40 years in prison before being released in 2018. Africa Jr. now advocates for prison reform and is a public speaker.
Titles credited to Mike Africa Jr.
40 Years a Prisoner
A chronicle of the controversial 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the radical back-to-nature group MOVE and the aftermath that led to a son’s decades-long fight to free his parents. Through eyewitness...
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The Inheritance
Based on real events, the film’s protagonist inherits a house in West Philadelphia that becomes home to an urban collective for activists of color. The increasingly claustrophobic drama unfolds as the...
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