Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death...
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figure, Mumia Abu-Jamal has attracted widespread attention in popular culture. Since at least 1995, there are examples of references to him in notable...
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article: Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal was a 1982 murder trial in which Mumia Abu-Jamal was tried for the first-degree...
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Leonard Weinglass (category Mumia Abu-Jamal)
attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal for several years. In 1995, he authored a book about Abu-Jamal's case entitled Race for Justice: Mumia Abu Jamal's Fight Against...
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Locust Street (category Culture of Philadelphia)
Clock Ticking for Activist Convicted of Killing Officer : Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal files appeal as Pennsylvania governor sets execution date for Aug....
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ABC Framed the Mumia Abu-Jamal Story. Edwin Mellen Press. Jhally, Sut (Director) (2001). Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal. Northampton...
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No Shelter (section References to popular culture)
movie's phrase "Size does matter" appear on billboards in the city scenes. They are: "Mumia Abu-Jamal's cell is this big" (a tiny cell) -- "Justice does matter...
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International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. They were an early campaigner to save Mumia Abu-Jamal from death row. The Spartacist League regards what they term the "struggle...
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Plainfield, Vermont (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
up a significant portion of the townspeople. Goddard alumni include Mumia Abu-Jamal, members of the band Phish, David Mamet, Piers Anthony, Mary Edwards...
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Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France (category 1920 establishments in France)
trial, as well as the conditions in which he has been detained. Free Mumia!: Campaign for the liberation of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an American sentenced to death...
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The Liberator Magazine (category 2002 establishments in Minnesota)
K-os, M-1 (rapper) (of Dead Prez), Malidoma Patrice Somé, Method Man, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Nathalie Johnson-Lee, Nikki Giovanni, Rahki, Runoko Rashidi, Saul...
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Silvia Federici (category American expatriates in Nigeria)
continent and in the United States.[citation needed] In 1995, in the course of the campaign to demand the liberation of Mumia Abu-Jamal, she cofounded...
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riots entirely. He also cites the book "lumping political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal in with the likes of Lorena Bobbitt and the Columbine shooters." O'Keefe...
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George Solomos (category American expatriates in France)
Golden Girls. He also arranged for a filmed interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on death row in Philadelphia – the last instance of such an interview, since...
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Sundiata Acoli (section Popular culture)
parole in May 2022 at the age of 85. Sundiata Acoli is hailed in the song "Sunshine" by hip hop music artist Yasiin Bey alongside Mumia Abu Jamal and Assata...
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Leonard Peltier (category 1975 murders in the United States)
topics, and the line that references Peltier also references Mumia Abu-Jamal; it reads "Free Mumia and Leonard Peltier". Ryan Bingham's song "Sunshine", is...
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1834 Philadelphia race riot (category Irish-American culture in Philadelphia)
scientist James A. Morone in a 2003 book and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal in a 2004 book state that there were seven race riots in Philadelphia between 1834...
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Cornel West (category African-American men in politics)
Radical King (2016) Film Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal as himself The Matrix Reloaded (2003) as Councilor West The Matrix...
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Anarchist Black Cross (category Organizations listed in Russia as undesirable)
in 2001 to pursue prison issues more generally, with looser conditions for membership. Anarchists contributed to the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal...
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University of Oregon media (category Mass media in Eugene, Oregon)
Earth First! organization. It has also rallied for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeff Luers, a local eco-anarchist whose 22-year arson sentence...
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Michael Franti (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
tour in addition to producing the annual Power to the Peaceful festival each year since 1998. The festival originated as a way of supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal...
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Anti-Racist Action (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
involved in supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook), who was convicted for the 1981 murder of PPD officer Daniel Faulkner. In September 1999 in Baltimore...
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Colia Clark (category Women in New York (state) politics)
Grandmothers for the Release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Clark was a student at Tougaloo College, an historically black college in Tougaloo, Mississippi, when she...
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NPR (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
her divisive views. In 1994, NPR arranged to air, on All Things Considered, a series of three-minute commentaries by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist convicted...
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Selma James (section In popular culture)
of Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners Vs the USA by Mumia Abu-Jamal (UK edition Crossroads Books, 2011) Sex, Race and Class—the Perspective...
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Friedrich Nietzsche (category German philosophers of culture)
Barres—and was steeped in conservative French historical and philosophical traditions. Abu-Jamal, Mumia (2004). We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther...
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these oppressed communities they were no longer nations." Others, like Mumia Abu-Jamal thought that intercommunalism was a terrible rhetorical strategy, as...
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Ella Baker (section Representation in media)
2021. Women in the Civil Rights Movement, pp. 51–52. Women in the Civil Rights Movement, p. 51. Abu-Jamal, Mumia. We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther...
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Kathleen Cleaver (category American expatriates in Algeria)
works on numerous campaigns, including freedom for death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and habeas corpus for Geronimo Pratt. Cleaver has worked for many years...
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Ben & Jerry's (category Vermont culture)
rumors that suggested Ben & Jerry's supported the defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal — who was convicted in 1982 of killing Philadelphia Police officer Daniel Faulkner...
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