Mumia Abu-Jamal
Acting • Born 1954-04-24
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.
Filmography
9 credits
Zapatista
Movie • 1999
Self (voice)
In Prison My Whole Life
Movie • 2008
Self
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Movie • 2013
Self
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
Movie • 1998
Himself
COINTELPRO 101
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Movie • 2010
Himself
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
All Power to the People!
Movie • 1996
Self
The Jena 6
Movie • 2007
Narrator