Join us for a film screening of the HBO Documentary 40 Years A Prisoner, a book discussion and signing with Mike Africa Jr.

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This will be at our 2nd location inside Lexington Market upstairs inside The Baltimore Room. Enter on Paca St.

About Mike Africa, Jr.

I was born in a jail cell.

My parents were sentenced to 200 years in prison for a crime they did not commit.

I grew up in the hood in West Philly.

I lived through the crack epidemic that took many of my friends to prison and early graves.

At age 6 the police dropped a bomb on my family.

I saw the smoke and fire that killed 11 of my people.

At age 13 I started working to free my parents. It was #hardwork. But I never gave up.