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I'm Free Now, You Are Free
directed by Ash Goh Hua; presented by Mike Africa, Jr.; produced by Arielle Knight, fl. 2020 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2020), 15 mins
A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9. In 1978, Debbie, then 8 months pregnant, and many other MOVE family members were arrested after an attack by the Philadelphia Police Department; born in a...
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directed by Ash Goh Hua; presented by Mike Africa, Jr.; produced by Arielle Knight, fl. 2020 (New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2020), 15 mins
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A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9. In 1978, Debbie, then 8 months pregnant, and many other MOVE family members were arrested after an attack by the Philadelphia Police Department; born in a prison cell, Mike Africa Jr. spent just three days with his mother before guards wrenched him away, and they spent the next 40 years st...
A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9. In 1978, Debbie, then 8 months pregnant, and many other MOVE family members were arrested after an attack by the Philadelphia Police Department; born in a prison cell, Mike Africa Jr. spent just three days with his mother before guards wrenched him away, and they spent the next 40 years struggling for freedom and for each other. In 2018, Mike Africa Jr. successfully organized to have his parents released on parole. “I realized that I had never seen her feet before,” was a remark he made when he reflected on Debbie’s homecoming. This film meditates on Black family preservation as resistance against the brutal legacies of state-sanctioned family separation.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Debbie Africa, Arielle Knight, fl. 2020
Author / Creator
Ash Goh Hua, Mike Africa, Jr.
Date Published / Released
2020
Publisher
Third World Newsreel
Speaker / Narrator
Debbie Africa
Person Discussed
Debbie Africa
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2020 Ash Goh Hua
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