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Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Peabody Award-winning radio reporter and convicted prisoner awaiting the death penalty presents an scathing account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life while criticizing the racism and political…
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J. Patrick O'Connor
Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing police officer Daniel Faulkner. This book shows how the Philadelphia Police Department and District Attorney’s Office framed Abu-Jamal for…
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Essential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black.
"Martin Luther King told us what he saw when he…
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A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today’s Black Lives Matter.
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A Compelling Argument Against The Death Of America’s Most Controversial Prisoner; The highly provocative case of Mumia Abu-Jamal has generated more international attention than that of any other inmate currently…
What brought Movement legend Angela Davis and a score of radical activists into action in 2021 on very short notice to demand the only treatment is freedom? It was the…
Mumia Abu Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s essential perspectives on black experience, race relations, freedom, justice, social change, and the future of American society.
Daniel R Williams
Daniel R. Williams, former lead attorney for Mumia Abu-Jamal, tells the full story of the trial and ongoing struggle for Abu-Jamal’s freedom, and interrogates the United States’s commitment to capital…
John Hayden
From the knowledgeable perspective of 25 years as a criminal lawyer (mostly appeals like murder, rape, robbery, etc.), a former co-editor of Gilbert’s Criminal Law & Procedure, and a free…
Dave Lindorff
What the lawyers aren’t telling you–and what the prosecution and defense missed.
Mumia Abu Jamal,Staughton Lynd
The story of one of the longest prison uprisings in US history.
A vivid and compelling picture of the Black Panther Party. By focusing on the men and women who were the Party, as much as on the leadership, Mumia Abu-Jamal combines…
Valerie Jones
Stories of prisoners who learn law to represent and sometimes win freedom for fellow prisoners
Mumia Abu-Jamal,Marc Lamont Hill
Mumia Abu-Jamal and friend Marc Lamont Hill have an informal chat about the state of Black culture in the United States.
Mumia Abu-Jamal,Stephen Vittoria
The prevailing myth is that America’s prized possessions and greatest exports are democracy and the dream of freedom. The naked truth, according to Abu-Jamal and Vittoria, is that the American…
In Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny, Abu-Jamal and Vittoria continue their epic recounting of the history–and present reality–of America. This volume challenges the acceptance of some of the most heralded features…
Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith written by radical, Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.
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Peter Phillips,Project Censored
An expose of stories that were omitted from the news.
Just as the lives of slaves and Indigenous peoples paid for the early growth of the new American nation, so too were lives sacrificed to advance the expansion of empire…
Kevin Rashid Johnson
Kevin Rashid Johnson entered the u.s. prison system over 20 years ago, one of countless young Black men consigned to lifelong incarceration by the post-civil right policies of anti-Black genocide…
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Presents a collection of speeches and articles that trace the dramatic changes in the author’s own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of…
Dhoruba Bin Wahad,Assata Shakur,Mumia Abu-Jamal
an essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI’S 1969 mandate to destroy the organization by any…
