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Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; [3] April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on death row, he wrote and commented on the criminal justice system in the United States.
In Prison My Whole Life is a 2007 documentary film about American journalist and prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, directed by Marc Evans, and written by Evans and William Francome. Others involved with the project were Robert R. Bryan , Angela Davis , Anthony Arnove , Dead Prez , Howard Zinn , Mos Def , Noam Chomsky , Robert Meeropol , Russell Simmons ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ]
Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...
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]