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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. While on death row, he wrote and commented on the criminal justice system in the United States. After numerous appeals, his death sentence was overturned by a federal court. In 2011, the prosecution agreed to a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. He entered the general prison population early the following year.
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Awards & recognition
- War Resisters League Peace Award · 2015
- Erich Mühsam Award · 2001
- honorary citizen of Paris · 2001
Filmography4 titles
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013as Self
2013as Self
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
1998as Himself
1998as Himself
COINTELPRO 101
2010as Self (archive footage)
2010as Self (archive footage)
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
2008as Narrator (voice)
2008as Narrator (voice)