Rap Brown did not wait for permission to define himself. Long before federal agents called him a menace and politicians wrote laws in his name, he was a young man from Baton Rouge who believed the ...

On Nov. 23, Hubert “H. Rap” Brown transitioned. In 1971, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Today, he is largely remembered for pity quips like “Violence is as ...

Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal are on a 103-mile, 12-day march ending Tuesday in Frackville, Pennsylvania, where he is imprisoned at the Mahanoy state prison. The march ends on the same day Abu-Jamal ...

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Hard Knock Radio opens with Jamal Ibn Mumia, son of Mumia Abu-Jamal, reporting back from journalism conferences in Havana and recent stops on the Mumia Freedom Tour. He describes global concern over U ...

H. Rap Brown did not wait for permission to define himself. Long before federal agents called him a menace and politicians wrote laws in his name, he was a young man from Baton Rouge who believed the ...

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the fiery speaker and agitator known as H. Rap Brown when he led the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee down the path of black nationalism in the 1960s, has died in ...

BUTNER, N.C. -- Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the Black Power movement leader formerly known as H. Rap Brown, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff ...

ATLANTA — A prominent civil rights leader and former member of the Black Panther Party has died in prison nearly 25 years after being convicted of killing a Fulton County Sheriff’s deputy. He was ...