Mumia Abu-Jamal
American journalist, author, and political activist (born Wesley Cook). Convicted in 1982 for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer; his case has attracted widespread international attention and controversy. Former Black Panther member and long-term incarcerated commentator and writer.
Books
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1. Live From Death Row
A searing collection of prison dispatches written during the author's time on death row, blending legal argument, personal memoir, and political commentary to challenge the fairness of his trial and to expose systemic racism, police violence, and media prejudice in the American criminal-justice system. Through vivid storytelling, historical context, and urgent moral critique, the pieces interrogate capital punishment, the erosion of civil rights, and the broader politics of punishment while calling for solidarity, legal reform, and grassroots activism. The tone alternates between reflective, polemical, and poetic, offering both an intimate portrait of life under sentence and a sustained indictment of institutionalized injustice.
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