Mumia Abu-Jamal
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 206 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In December 1981, Mumia Abu Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness. In Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Writing from the barren confines of his death row cell, Mumia Abu-Jamal provides a remarkable testament about the Black Panther Party...an amazing book that illuminates the truth of what his membership in the Party was about, and reveals the extreme price extracted from him for having learned, and for now telling the truth."
-Kathleen Cleaver, from the Introduction
Mumia Abu Jamal, America's most famous political prisoner, is internationally known...