Mumia Abu-Jamal

Essential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black; a reader's guide for understanding the evolution of anti-prison tenets. This essential core of 31 primary texts provides an arc of insurgent writings by dissidents and revolutionaries who experienced incarceration and state terror first-hand. With contributions from John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Crazy Horse, to Assata Shakur, show more Malcolm X, and Leonard Peltier, it also includes a previously unpublished communiqué from Angela Davis, written from jail at the time when she was forging the anti-prison critique that has since inspired a national movement. Beneath the Mountain offers a record of the historic foundations for the contemporary abolition movement. What emerges from these texts is an emancipatory vision that inspires the work being done today, a vision centered on organizing and solidarity as an antidote to repression. An invaluable resource for readers on both sides of prison walls, this compendium of resistance and hard-won vision will be essential to all who seek to develop an abolitionist critique and to further an understanding of the nature of repression and liberation. show less

Death Blossoms is a compilation of essays, poems and reflections by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a prisoner on death row. The circumstances surrounding his imprisonment are pretty absurd, and sadly all too relevant and painful to black activists and radicals. His essays are very open, written with the honesty of somebody who has nothing left to lose.

This is a good & thought provoking book. Mumia & Marc talk about several different subjects. At the end of each chapter there is a list of books -- I'm not sure if they are all suggested readings, or some are just books referred to. It is clearly a conversation of 2 intellectuals. And seekers. It gave me the feeling that it was OK to look in different directions and consider different ideas; within reason they weren't trying to reach the right answer. (It was OK to be wrong and learn more & show more change your mind.) show less

The story of Mumia Abu-Jamal as told by himself from his cell on death row. Powerfully told. An illustration of societal issue and controversy surrounding the death penalty.