Mumia Abu-Jamal

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1. Mumia Abu-Jamal

   Author of Live from Death Row, All Things Censored, Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience

2. Ward Churchill

   Author of A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present, Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (South End, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Consequences of American Conquest and Carnage

3. Huey P. Newton

   Author of Revolutionary Suicide, The Huey P. Newton Reader, To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton

4. Angela Davis

   Author of Women, Race & Class, Angela Davis: An Autobiography, Are Prisons Obsolete?

5. George L. Jackson

   Author of Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, Blood in My Eye

6. Subcomandante Marcos

   Author of Our Word is Our Weapon, Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberatio

7. Frantz Fanon

   Author of The Wretched of the Earth, Black Skin, White Masks

8. Christian Parenti

   Author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror

9. William Upski Wimsatt

   Author of No More Prisons, Bomb the Suburbs

10. bell hooks

    Author of killing rage: Ending Racism, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

11. John Ross

    Author of The War Against Oblivion: The Zapatista Chronicles (The Read & Resist Series)

12. Assata Shakur

    Author of Assata: An Autobiography

13. Leonard Peltier

    Author of Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance

14. Manning Marable

    Author of How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society, Black Liberation in Conservative America

15. Malcolm X

    Author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

16. Howard Zinn

    Author of Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order (Radical 60s), SNCC: The New Abolitionists

17. Elaine Katzenberger

    Author of First World, Ha, Ha, Ha!

18. Elaine Brown

    Author of A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

19. Eldridge Cleaver

    Author of Soul on Ice

20. Philip Sheldon Foner

    Author of The Black Panthers Speak