![]() ![]() Despite his three-decade imprisonment, most of which was spent in solitary confinement on Death Row, Abu-Jamal has relentlessly fought for his freedom and for his profession. He spent more than 28 years on death row for allegedly killing a white police officer in Philadelphia. Abu-Jamal is a radical, and while his view of the government's attacks on the Branch Davidians and on the Philadelphia radical group MOVE is appropriately skeptical, his uncritical support for Black Panther Huey Newton and MOVE may dismay even those sympathetic to his general critique. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist. 'Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr. 'A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard.' Alice Walker. ``Encased within a psychic cocoon of negativity, the bad get worse and feed on evil's offal,'' he writes, noting the irony of the term ``corrections.'' In the postindustrial age, he comments, America is the world's prison leader, and crack's devastation of black America reminds him of the impact of alcohol on Native Americans. There is a newer edition of this item: Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal () 113.22. ![]() This collection of brief writings, including some intended for NPR, presents a bracing challenge to complacent views about crime, race and incarceration-and surely deserved airing. A former Philadelphia radio reporter, on death row since his 1982 conviction for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer-in a flawed case he's trying to reopen-Abu-Jamal gained attention last year when National Public Radio rescinded its plan to broadcast his commentaries. ![]()
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