Mumia Abu-Jamal

Biography

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

In Prison My Whole Life

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

All Power to the People!

COINTELPRO 101

Black Devil Doll

Zapatista

Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

The Jena 6

All Movies (11)

• Träume und andere Realitäten: Rückblick auf 30 Jahre junge Welt2026
• Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal2013 · as Self
• COINTELPRO 1012010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal2010 · as Himself
• The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation2008 · as Narrator (voice)
• In Prison My Whole Life2008 · as Self
• The Jena 62007 · as Narrator
• Black Devil Doll2007 · as Mubia Abul-Jama
• Zapatista1999 · as Self (voice)
• Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?1998 · as Himself
• All Power to the People!1996 · as Self