40 Years a Prisoner

In 1978, a raid on the revolutionary group MOVE's commune in Philadelphia ended with the death of a police officer. Under highly questionable circumstances, nine MOVE activists -- all of them Black -- received maximum sentences of between 30 and 100 years in prison. Young married couple Debbie Africa and Mike Africa, expecting a child at the time, were among those convicted. Debbie gave birth to Mike Africa Jr. inside prison walls, and he would spend the next 40 years fighting for the release of his parents and the other MOVE members.