Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia AbuJamal 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 internationallyrecognized awardwinning 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 19691971 then for numerous Philadelphia radio and print venues including National Public Radio