Mumia Abu-Jamal
Birthday
1954/04/24 (70 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know as
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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.
Acting
(1999) Zapatista
as Self (voice)
(2008) In Prison My Whole Life
as Self
(2013) Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Self
(1998) Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
as Himself
(2010) COINTELPRO 101
as Self (archive footage)
(2010) Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Himself
(2008) The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
as Narrator (voice)
(1996) All Power to the People!
as Self
(2007) The Jena 6
as Narrator