Thirty years ago today, Mumia Abu-Jamal, né Wesley Cook, murdered 25-year-old Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. There is no doubt about that. Not even the killer really denies it. The ...

May 17, 2007 — -- One of the most controversial death row inmates in American history, convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal is heading back to court to seek a new trial. A folk hero to some ...

In Mumia’s case, the D.A.’s office used 10 of 15 peremptories to dump African Americans, and later got rid of another. That means the prosecutor used about 70 percent of those challenges to ...

Judith Ritter, Abu-Jamal's lead attorney, said the judge's reinstatement of Mumia's right to appeal shows that the state Supreme Court — in its 2012 decision — was biased with the presence of ...

The troubling case of black activist-journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been in prison for 30 years for the murder of a white Philadelphia cop in 1981, is examined in this fawning documentary. Abu… ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Let’s concede a few things about Mumia Abu-Jamal right off the top: He’s a bad ...

Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther who was convicted of killing white police officer Daniel Faulkner, has been told by prosecutors that they will no longer seek the death penalty.

Arguments in a request by former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal (moo-MEE'-ah AH'-boo jah-MAHL') to have his previous appeals vacated have been postponed.

Mumia Abu-Jamal was one of hundreds of journalists who received in the mail a packet of covertly-copied COINTELPRO documents. They were sent by eight activists who broke into FBI offices in Media ...

Brown University Acquires the Papers of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of a police officer, became the face of the anti-death penalty movement and a widely published ...