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Mumia Abu-Jamal

ActorBorn April 24, 1954 (72 years)
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

  • Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation

Filmography

2012
2010
Cointelpro 101 · as Self (archive Footage)
2007
2001
Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self
1999
Zapatista · as Self (voice)
1998
1996

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