. >> mass encars ration, rainfall p racial profiling resonate with visitors today. >> reporter: nearly 43,000 people have viewed the exhibit since it opened, roughly a year ago, outstripping other exhibits. it's so popular that it's now being renewed. >> for an entire additional year through 2019. >> carrying mlessons of the pas into the present. >> something special is happening in the sky tonight and in the early hours of tomorrow morning. abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom explains why once in a blue moon doesn't even begin to explain tonight's celestial experience. >> we have a super blue blood moon. >> it that hasibilin't happened 150 years. something that nobody alive has seen. >> first there's the supermoon. >> we have a full moon that appears brighter because the moon is about 7% closer. >> reporter: it's the second one this month, and that's called a blue moon ch. >> what's a blue moon? >> it's when the moon turns blue. >> reporter: well, actually not. the earth's atmosphere scatters the sunlight and turns the moon the color of blood. >> so a super blue blood moon. >> our moon

i do think that the fight against mass encars ration has become the sil rights movement of today. >> tell me why. >> because if somebody says that who are they? i know it's not. people like me now and i poured the pistol out on that guy. i was not among the mass incarcerated. i have rarely been in rooms. you feel different primarily because you feel time in prison. it is a relationship with men in prison when you have a more robust understanding of their possibilities. a lot of us don't. you said you're in a very different space now that it's like saying the knife was like 12 inches in my back and now it's 9. for me to say it's different from 1996 to now i have to point to some people who flow becaukn of our work are no longer in prison. i'm trying to get one person an attorney and having everybody i respected who i thought would give me a yes, guys doing 63 years for a crime that wasn't a ra ra rape, wasn't a robbery. he got 63 years in a state with no parole. for me to argue things have changed, i would be blind to him. >> what has changed is awareness. that may be step one out of