All posts tagged "Mumia"
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Mumia Abu Jamal Needs Your Support
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a journalist and former Black Panther who was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the alleged murder of a...
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Afterword: A Love Letter to Mumia
Dearest Mumia, I have been writing this letter for many years, in my head and in my heart, but have not until now committed the...
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Mumia: An Ironic Icon
By Soffiyah Elijah Mumia Abu-Jamal seems at times to be bigger than life. Many around the globe revere him, while law enforcement authorities despise him. His...
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Mumia on Religion, Empire, and Gender
By Mark Lewis Taylor While Mumia endured 50 days in solitary confinement, transiting from 29 years on death row to the general prison population in 2012,...
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Silencing the Record: Misrepresentation, Gender Politics, and Truth in the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Johanna Fernandez In the last week, conservative media outlets zealously revisited the case of celebrated political prisoner and radio journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. This time...
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Confined Writers and Their Criminal Writings
By Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell Last month, The New York Times reported a discovery made in Rochester, New York about what we now know as...
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K.O.S. (Determination): Black Communities Keeping It Real and Right
By Liz Derias “…among those that have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of overcoming.” ~ Mumia Abu Jamal, Death Blossoms: Reflections from a...
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Mumia is a Yogi
By Jamila K. Wilson Breathe…Breathe. Deep breaths. Allow your inhale to expand your belly, and intentionally press your bellybutton back into your body. Use this breath...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal and My Survival
By Gabriel Teodros A distant father figure who I’ve never once met. A living hero who’s words written from a prison cell had a deeper effect...
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Remember
By Micol Seigel In the winter of 2001-2002, the dust of the Twin Towers continued to settle, it seemed to me, along with the snow. ...
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From Mumia to Rasmea: Political incarceration in the belly of the beast- from Black Liberation to Arab Freedom
By Layli Kristy Feghali Coming of age as a young US-born Arab woman in the post 9/11 era, Mumia’s case drew clear attention to the...
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Mumia: Vulnerability and Hope
By Jessica Millward I began writing to Mumia Abu-Jamal in December 2011 while he was in the liminal space between Death Row at...
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Ona Move!: A Conversation With Pam Africa and Ramona Africa
By Jamila K. Wilson As an activist in Philadelphia, I have been mentored by Pam and Ramona Africa of the MOVE family. They are...
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Long Distance Revolutionary: An Intergenerational Conversation
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Clyde Gumbs and Jared Gumbs This summer I attended a screening of Prison Radio’s film about Mumia Abu-Jamal, Long Distance Revolutionary. Mumia...
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The Making of Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary
By Noelle Hanrahan Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary is an inspiring portrait of a man whom many consider America’s most famous political prisoner – a man whose...
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“Fire in the Skies”: Introduction to the Mumia and Mass Incarceration Forum
On December 9, 1981, journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and later charged and convicted for murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. The prosecution’s...
