Who is Mumia Abu-Jamal
Born: April 23, 1954 in Philadelphia, PA
Father of 3 children, grandfather to 3 children
Occupation: Journalist Recipient of awards and honors for his reporting on police misconduct, abuse of authority, and racial discrimination, education and housing in Philadelphia. Exposed police and prosecutorial wrongdoing in the police attack on the Move organization and the subsequent prosecution of Move members.
Political activities: Founding member of the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia, Pa. and Minister of Information. His political activities caused The Federal Bureau of Information (FBI) to maintain a surveillance of him since he was 16 years of age. They have acknowledged accumulating hundreds of pages of reports on his activities, none of which reflected criminal activity.
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