MOVE’s Minister of Defense Delbert Africa, 73, died from cancer on June 15 at home and surrounded by his family. Delbert was one of the MOVE 9, who all received life sentences following a racist Philadelphia police raid on the MOVE house and headquarters in 1978. 

Delbert Africa, January 2020.

Delbert spent 42 years in prison after an outrageously biased trial in which he was charged with the death of a police officer. Delbert Africa was convicted despite the widely believed charge that he was shot by police during their assault on the house. Delbert Africa was finally released this Jan. 18.  

Pam Africa, MOVE’s Minister of Confrontation, said, “Delbert will be remembered as a freedom fighter, an activist. An uncompromising, revolutionary freedom fighter who fought for the lives of all. When he came out [of prison], that’s how he came out. As strong as he was, mentally.”

Betsey Piette

Betsey.Piette@workers.org

Share
Published by
Betsey Piette

Recent Posts

Venezuela wins!

Workers World Party congratulates President Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan people on their successful election!…

July 30, 2024

In D.C. and countrywide, protests demand Netanyahu’s arrest

When one of the bloodiest Zionists in history speaks in the U.S. Congress, in front…

July 30, 2024

Congress welcomes Israeli war criminal to Washington

Just days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) told United Nation members to stop…

July 30, 2024

Yemen’s solidarity with Palestine

The bourgeois press is filled with a constant drum beat of Israeli destruction of the…

July 30, 2024

Beware of attempts to discredit Venezuela’s elections

The following letter was signed by more than 30 organizations, including Workers World Party, International…

July 30, 2024

Defend revolutionary Cuba!

Dozens of people attended an event, held at New Canaan Baptist Church in Brooklyn on…

July 29, 2024