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Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew up.He has a younger brother named William. They attended local public schools. In 1968, a high school teacher, a Kenyan man instructing a class on African cultures, encouraged the students to take African or Arabic names for classroom use; he gave Cook the name "Mumia". [10]
1981, December 9: Faulkner shot and killed by Mumia Abu-Jamal. 1982, June 17 – July 3: Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Convicted and sentenced to death. 1989, March 6: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania considers and denies the appeal of the sentence. 1990, October 1: Supreme Court of the United States denies petition for writ of certiorari.
Mumia Abu-Jamal, a member of MOVE, [56] was convicted and sentenced to death for the unrelated 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner. The death sentence was overturned in 2011 by a federal judge and Abu-Jamal was resentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. MOVE continues to advocate for Abu-Jamal's release. [57]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University has acquired a trove of records, writings and artwork from Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political The post Brown U. buys 60 boxes of ex-Black Panther Mumia Abu ...
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Lieutenant Minister of Information, Philadelphia chapter. In prison for the murder of a police officer. [2] Sundiata Acoli, Finance Minister of the Harlem chapter who served 49 years in prison for murdering a New Jersey state trooper, and was released in 2022. [3] [4] Ashanti Alston, anarchist activist. [5]
The film is a documentary covering the trial and case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist convicted in 1982 of the murder of a Philadelphia police officer and sentenced to death. He has written commentaries and a book while on death row. [3]
Mumia Abu-Jamal, arguably one of the nation’s most famous political prisoners, has long spoken out against racialized poverty and police brutality, earning him the title of “the world’s best ...
Live from Death Row, published in May 1995, is a memoir by Mumia Abu-Jamal, an American journalist and activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He is known for having been convicted of the murder of a city police officer and sentenced to death in 1982, in a trial that Amnesty International suspected of lacking impartiality.