Fernández met Abu-Jamal in 2005 after visiting him in prison. The historian wrote and produced a documentary film about the case, titled "Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal." ...

Abu-Jamal, born Wesley Cook, was a journalist, political activist and founding member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party. In 1982, Abu-Jamal was convicted of shooting and killing ...

Death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal will receive a new hearing on Nov. 9 to review his death sentence for the 1982 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third ...

Governor Ridge set the execution of the inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, for 10 P.M. on Aug. 17. AP June 3, 1995 ...

Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia in 1954. As a teenager, he co-founded a local chapter of the Black Panthers, which advocated socialism, Black nationalism and armed self-defense.

Mumia Abu-Jamal has been behind bars for 42 years now. He is serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.

The death-penalty case of Mumia Abu-Jamal took a surprising turn this week, as a federal appeals court declared, for the second time, that Abu-Jamal’s death sentence was unconstitutional. The 3rd ...

Several dozen supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered outside a Philadelphia courtroom Wednesday as a judge heard arguments on whether he should get another trial. Abu-Jamal is currently serving life ...

On Dec. 9, 1981, award-winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer. His case has generated unprecedented attention both nationally ...

Abu-Jamal, born Wesley Cook, was at the center of that maelstrom. As a youth, he had been active for a time with the Black Panthers. As a radio journalist, he had covered some of the major race ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Brown University has acquired a trove of records, writings and artwork from Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political activist and journalist who spent decades on death row for the ...