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