On this day, April 24, in 1954

Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was born. Mumia was a member of the Black Panther Party, a supporter of the radical MOVE community, and active in the Association of Black Journalists. In 1982, he was convicted of shooting a police officer and sentenced to death in what his supporters labeled an outrageously unfair trial. Despite many appeals and an abundance of evidence supporting his innocence, he remains on death row. While in prison, Mumia Abu-Jamal continues his amazing work as a journalist, passionately exposing injustices and speaking out against police brutality and the prison industrial complex.