Mumia Abu-Jamal
Born
April 24, 1954 (71 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
2013
COINTELPRO 101
Self (archive footage)
2010
Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Himself
2010
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
Narrator (voice)
2008
In Prison My Whole Life
Self
2008
The Jena 6
Narrator
2007
Zapatista
Self (voice)
1999
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
Himself
1998
All Power to the People!
Self
1996