Black Panther activist and former death-row political-prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal – who has been held captive in solitary confinement, within the Pennsylvania penitentiary system, for the past 3 decades ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES, June 25, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A coalition of community organizations, advocates, ...

Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal’s writings and artwork have been acquired by Brown University. His papers will be included in the Ivy league school’s collection of papers that focus on mass ...

It has been one month since Mumia Abu-Jamal was in the intensive care unit of a Pennsylvania hospital near the prison where he is serving a life sentence for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel ...

Mumia Abu-Jamal has been serving a life sentence (he was formerly Death Row) for the murder of a white policeman in Philadelphia since 1981. In that time, he's been heralded as a revolutionary and ...

Mumia's former lawyer Rachel Wolkenstein gives clarity to new events in Mumia Abu-Jamal's case, whereby Mumia has been granted appeal rights. Mumia's lawyers argued that Supreme Court Justice Ronald ...

On Mumia Abu-Jamal’s birthday, April 24, about 125 demonstrators mobilized outside Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas in solidarity with Mumia’s effort to reverse his 1982 frame-up murder conviction ...

Charlie Mack, Talib Kweli, and others are calling on Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf to release the imprisoned activist, Mumia Abu Jamal. Philadelphia journalist Mumia Abu Jamal has been incarcerated ...

This Friday, Mumia Abu-Jamal faces what could be his last chance for a new trial to consider newly discovered evidence that casts doubt on his 1982 conviction for murder. The journalist and former ...

On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced that he would not seek the death penalty against Mumia Abu-Jamal. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Abu-Jamal’s death sentence was ...

History is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, ...

Seven minutes from bucolic Molly Maguire Historical Park in Frackville, Pennsylvania is the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy. Behind the dull-grey concrete walls and razor wire, in a ...