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Birth Date:1954-04-24 00:00:00
Birth Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
Biography
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.
Filmography (9)
COINTELPRO 101
Role: Self (archive footage)2010
Zapatista
Role: Self (voice)1999
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Role: Self2013
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
Role: Himself1998
All Power to the People!
Role: Self1996
In Prison My Whole Life
Role: Self2008
Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Role: Himself2010
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
Role: Narrator (voice)2008
The Jena 6
Role: Narrator2007