Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a trial many have criticized as profoundly biased. Live From Death Row is a collection of his prison writings--an impassioned yet unflinching account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life. It is also a scathing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system that is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding the...

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 means possible.

Mumia Abu-Jamal, der als Jugendlicher selbst Teil dieser revolutionären Bewegung war, schreibt 2003-2004 aus seiner Zelle im Todestrakt heraus seine lebendigen Erinnerung an die eigene Zeit in der Black Panther Party auf. Er beleuchtet die Geschichte von Schwarzen in den USA seit der Sklavenhalterzeit bis heute, erklärt die Entstehung, die Ausrichtung und das Wirken der Partei, den Personenkult um den Mitbegründer Huey P. Newton, die staatliche Repression gegen die Bewegung, aber auch die Situation der Frauen in der Partei, das ganz normale, unspektakuläre Alltagsleben der Panthers und...

Mumia Abu Jamal, America s most famous political prisoner, is internationally known for his radio broadcasts and books emerging Live from Death Row. In his youth Mumia Abu-Jamal helped found the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, wrote for the national newspaper, and began his life-long work of exposing the violence of the state as it manifests in entrenched poverty, endemic racism, and unending police brutality. In We Want Freedom, Mumia combines his memories of day-to-day life in the Party with analysis of the history of Black liberation struggles. The result is a vivid and...

"A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th."--Library Journal, Starred review

"I was fortunate to grow up in a community in which it was apparent that our lives mattered. This memory is the antidote to the despair that seizes one of my generation when we hear the words 'Black Lives Matter.' We want to shout: Of course they do To you, especially. In this...