Mumia Abu-Jamal
Birthday: 1954-04-24 | Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAMumia 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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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
2008
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
as Narrator (voice)
2008
In Prison My Whole Life
as Self
2007
The Jena 6
as Narrator
1999
Zapatista
as Self (voice)
1998
1996
All Power to the People!
as Self
