Mumia Abu-Jamal
April 24, 1954 (70 years old) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Mumia Abu-Jamal 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. Mumia is an internationally-recognized award-winning journalist who has written eight books and countless articles and commentaries from a prison cell on death row in Pennsylvania. He has been writing since age 15, first as Minister of Information for the Philadelphia Black Panthers (1969-1971), then for numerous Philadelphia radio and print venues, including National Public Radio.
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- 2013 ยทLong Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamalas Self
- 2010 ยทCOINTELPRO 101as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 ยทJustice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamalas Himself
- 2008 ยทThe Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantationas Narrator (voice)
- 2008 ยทIn Prison My Whole Lifeas Self
- 2007 ยทThe Jena 6as Narrator
- 1999 ยทZapatistaas Self (voice)
- 1998 ยทMumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?as Himself
- 1996 ยทAll Power to the People!as Self