Mumia Abu-Jamal

Born: 1954-04-24

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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Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

as Self
Released: 2013-02-01

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia...

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All Power to the People!

as Self
Released: 1996-06-01

Using government documents, archive footage and direct interviews with activists and former...

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In Prison My Whole Life

as Self
Released: 2008-01-18

William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that...

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Zapatista

as Self (voice)
Released: 1999-01-01

"Zapatista" is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan...

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COINTELPRO 101

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-05-07

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US...

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Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

as Himself
Released: 2010-01-01

Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most recognized death row inmate in the world today. In 1982, he was was...

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The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2008-04-01

The gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who endured...

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