Product Description: “Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system. . . . His writings are dangerous.”—The Village VoiceIn Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners—many uneducated or illiterate—and, in some cases, to win their freedom...read more
9780872864696 | City Lights Books, February 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system.
Product Description: Telling the gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, this book describes these men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana’s prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings...read more
9781604860207 | Dvd edition (Independent Pub Group, August 5, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Telling the gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, this book describes these men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States.
Product Description: In his youth Mumia Abu-Jamal helped found the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, wrote for the national newspaper, and began his life-long work of exposing the violence of the state as it manifests in entrenched poverty, endemic racism, and unending police brutality and celebrating a people’s unending quest for freedom...read more
9780896087194 | South End Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In his youth Mumia Abu-Jamal helped found the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, wrote for the national newspaper, and began his life-long work of exposing the violence of the state as it manifests in entrenched poverty, endemic racism, and unending police brutality and celebrating a people’s unending quest for freedom.
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9780896087187 | South End Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A founder of the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party combines his personal experiences and extensive research to examine the revolutionary fervor and hope, as well as the oppression, of the Black Panther Party.
Product Description: From the founding legends of Abyssinia’s royal house to the hidden "hush harbors" of black captives in the America’s southland, Mumia Abu-Jamal presents a moving portrayal of black faith over the span of 500 years. In this book, his first work of history, the acclaimed essayist pens a probing panorama of the spiritual life of African people, who, dispensed from their motherland, molded a love of freedom into religious practice and resistance to racist tyranny...read more
9781592210183 | Africa World Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: From the founding legends of Abyssinia’s royal house to the hidden "hush harbors" of black captives in the America’s southland, Mumia Abu-Jamal presents a moving portrayal of black faith over the span of 500 years.
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9781592210190 | Africa World Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From the founding legends of Abyssinia’s royal house to the hidden "hush harbors" of black captives in the America’s southland, Mumia Abu-Jamal presents a moving portrayal of black faith over the span of 500 years.
9780896086999 | South End Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The author, a prisoner on death-row for killing a police officer, presents a series of essays and reflections on his life and his spirituality.
9780874860863 | Plough Pub House, January 1, 1997, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A testament to the invincibility of the human spirit, this is a collection of short essays on nature, politics, culture, race and religion.
Product Description: A collection of audio essays from the world's most famous death-row prisoner. Some are new, including one on the 2000 Presidential elections, some are newly released from the NPR archive, some are vintage recordings from his days as a freeworld radio journalist, including his classic interview with Bob Marley and his coverage of the conflicts between Move and the Philadelphia police...read more
9781902593456 | Abridged edition (A K Pr Distribution, October 1, 2001), cover price $14.98 | About this edition: A collection of audio essays from the world's most famous death-row prisoner.
A collection of essays, letters, and other writing from jailed journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal features fifty pieces in all, including the radio essays that were recorded for but never aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Reprint.
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9781583220764 | 1 reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, July 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays, letters, and other writing from jailed journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal features fifty pieces in all, including the radio essays that were recorded for but never aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
A collection of essays, letters, and other writing from jailed journalist Mumia AbuJamal includes fifty pieces in all, including the radio essays that were recorded for but never aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. 35,000 first printing.
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9781583220221, titled "All Things Censored" | Har/com edition (Seven Stories Pr, May 1, 2000), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays, letters, and other writing from jailed journalist Mumia AbuJamal, including the radio essays that were recorded for, but never aired on, National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered.
All the news that fit but still wasn't printed is collected here, featuring the top twentyfive under or unreported stories of the year. Original.
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Product Description: Here for the first time are the prison writings of Abu-Jamal--including the censored commentaries from NPR--an unflinching account of the brutalities, humiliations and actrocities of prison life. Articulate and compelling, the work is certain to fuel the controversy surrounding capital punishment and freedom of speech...read more
9781559406918 | Cd-rom edition (Voyager Co, January 1, 2000), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Here for the first time are the prison writings of Abu-Jamal--including the censored commentaries from NPR--an unflinching account of the brutalities, humiliations and actrocities of prison life.
9780201483192 | Perseus Books, June 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Awaiting execution for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman, the author describes the brutality and humiliation of prison life and argues that the justice system is racist and ruled by political expediency
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9780380727667 | Perennial, June 1, 1996, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A Peabody Award-winning radio reporter and convicted prisoner awaiting the death penalty presents an scathing account of the brutalities and humiliations of prison life while criticizing the racism and political bias in the American judicial system.
Product Description: This CD is a collection of 16 essays by Mumia Abu-Jamal. Alice Walker, Howard Zinn, Cornel West and Martin Sheen are just a few who add their commentaries. 100% of the proceeds benefit Mumia Abu-Jamal's legal defense.
9781902593067 | A K Pr Distribution, February 1, 1999, cover price $14.98 | About this edition: This CD is a collection of 16 essays by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Product Description: Still Black Still Strong is an essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI'S 1969 mandate to destroy the organization "by any means possible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
9780936756745 | Semiotext, February 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Still Black Still Strong is an essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI'S 1969 mandate to destroy the organization "by any means possible.