Mumia Abu-Jamal
Actor
- Born
- April 24, 1954 (age 72) · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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. Mumia is an internationally-recognized award-winning journalist who has written eight books and countless articles and commentaries from a prison cell on death row in Pennsylvania. He has been writing since age 15, first as Minister of Information for the Philadelphia Black Panthers (1969-1971), then for numerous Philadelphia radio and print venues, including National Public Radio.
Known for
Black Devil Doll
October 31, 2007
Steal This Story, Please!
April 10, 2026
Zapatista
October 7, 1999
All Power to the People!
June 1, 1996
Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
March 1, 1998
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
February 1, 2013
In Prison My Whole Life
January 18, 2008
COINTELPRO 101
May 7, 2010
Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
January 1, 2010
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
April 1, 2008
The Jena 6
December 7, 2007
Träume und andere Realitäten: Rückblick auf 30 Jahre junge Welt
February 14, 2026
Acting12
- 2026Steal This Story, Please! as Self (archive footage)
- 2026Träume und andere Realitäten: Rückblick auf 30 Jahre junge Welt
- 2013Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal as Self
- 2010COINTELPRO 101 as Self (archive footage)
- 2010Justice On Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal as Himself
- 2008The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation as Narrator (voice)
- 2008In Prison My Whole Life as Self
- 2007The Jena 6 as Narrator
- 2007Black Devil Doll as Mubia Abul-Jama
- 1999