On Dec. 9, 1981, award-winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer. His case has generated unprecedented attention both nationally ...

Abu-Jamal supporters have also called for him to be released over medical issues. Madusa Carter joined a rally outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia during a hearing on Oct. 26, 2022 to ...

Mumia Abu-Jamal has been behind bars for 42 years now. He is serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.

Hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in officer's 1981 death, set for Wednesday His death penalty sentence was overturned by a federal court, and in 2011, he was re-sentenced to life in prison.

Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter, was originally sentenced to death for the first-degree murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner on Dec. 9, 1981, but he was resentenced to life in 2012.

Forty years ago Thursday, Philadelphia journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested and charged with the shooting death of 25-year-old Daniel Faulkner, a city police officer.

Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia in 1954. As a teenager, he co-founded a local chapter of the Black Panthers, which advocated socialism, Black nationalism and armed self-defense.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8 -- Several hundred supporters of death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal rallied today for his release, marking the 20th anniversary of the shooting of a police officer.

Abu-Jamal spent 40 years in prison and became a prolific writer, criticizing the prison system. Recently, he has contracted COVID-19 while in prison and may be on the verge of death if he does not ...

During his incarceration Abu-Jamal has had some health issues. He had double bypass surgery in March 2020, renal failure in 2017, after-effects of COVID-19 and hepatitis C.

An exhibit titled “ Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration,” will be displayed across campus in the John Hay Library, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, the Center for the Study of Race ...

A collection of letters and papers from Mumia Abu-Jamal are the focus of a research collection from Brown University's John Hay Library, aiming to present first-person accounts of mass ...