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Decades on, Delbert Africa’s surrender still provides powerful image of US racism and Black victimhood

  • Written by Nicole Maurantonio, Associate Provost of Academic Affairs | Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies, University of Richmond
imageDelbert Africa surrenders to Philadelphia police shortly before they brutally arrest him. Jim Domke/Philadelphia Inquirer

Forty-six years ago, on Aug. 8, 1978, Philadelphia police surrounded the house occupied by the controversial MOVE organization in Powelton Village with the intent to evict the predominantly Black group.

The result was a shootout...

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