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Mumia Abu-Jamal  

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  • Mumia Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An award-winning African American journalist and political activist who has contributed to dozens of newspapers, written several books, and hosted his own radio show, Abu-Jamal is currently a prisoner serving a life sentence at Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution-Greene for the 1981 murder of a police officer, Daniel Faulkner. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Abu-Jamal, Mumia (1954-)]

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