Mumia Abu-Jamal

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.

Known for

2013

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self

2010

COINTELPRO 101

Self (archive footage)

2010

Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Himself

2008

In Prison My Whole Life

Self

2008

The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation

Narrator (voice)

2007

The Jena 6

Narrator

1999

Zapatista

Self (voice)

1998

Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

Himself

1996

All Power to the People!

Self