S20 "The Africas VS. America" E7: Elegy
The Expert Witness from Uncover
CBC
4.5 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
After a commission finds that city officials and police were negligent in their actions on May 13, 1985, a reeling city looks to heal, and surviving members of the Africa family redouble efforts to free the MOVE 9. Two senior members are released from prison having served more than 40 years. They now have reservations about the MOVE organization. A rift in the family opens up. By the end of 2020, all remaining MOVE 9 are free. Delbert dies only months after his release, and the family now turns its focus to the future. The descendents of MOVE remind us the fight for liberation continues.
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| 0:00.0 | All seven episodes of the Africa's Versus America are available right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Binge Listen to the entire series by searching Africa's Versus America |
| 0:09.0 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:11.0 | You could also listen ad-free by subscribing to the CBC True Crime Channel on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:17.0 | This is a CBC Podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Before we start, a heads up. |
| 0:25.0 | This episode includes explicit language. |
| 0:30.0 | This is crazy. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm back at the House of Correction where I was born. |
| 0:36.0 | Trying to actually go in, be inside of it for the first time since I was born back in 1978. |
| 0:42.0 | This is crazy. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm excited. Like, I probably shouldn't be excited to go to prison. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm excited to go inside. |
| 0:51.0 | Mike Africa, Jr. is touring the Philadelphia jail where his mother Debbie was held during the trial of the move 9. |
| 0:58.0 | She was taken here after the raid in 1978, along with the others. |
| 1:04.0 | Stronger they don't lock me in. |
| 1:09.0 | Mike calls Debbie to help find his bearings. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay. You were all the way in the back, on the left. |
| 1:18.0 | For so long, this place was an abstraction. |
| 1:23.0 | And this is what it would have been like in 1978. |
| 1:26.0 | Basically, this format really has the change. |
| 1:31.0 | The jail was officially closed in 2020, so there are no inmates here today. |
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