Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Mumia Abu-Jamal is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on
Abu-Jamal c. 1980
Abu-Jamal (right), then a reporter for WHYY-TV, interviewing Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers in 1980
Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner
Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge, who signed Abu-Jamal's death warrant on June 1, 1995
MOVE, originally the Christian Movement for Life, is an organization that advocates for black liberation, nature laws and natural living, founded in 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States,
Mumia Abu-Jamal
…and later became a radio reporter. He eventually served as president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists (1978–1980). He supported MOVE, a Philadelphia-based organization, and covered the 1978 confrontation in which one police officer was killed. The MOVE Nine were the members who were…
Members of MOVE in 1978