Series: Misc
Genre: Other
ISBN: 0874869013
Pages: 221 pages
Publisher: Litmus Books
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: Other
ISBN: 0874869013
Pages: 221 pages
Publisher: Litmus Books
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: Everyone has an opinion about Mumia Abu-Jamal. Have an informed opinion. Read his story.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the most controversial icons of our time. He has become the face of the death penalty, and of America's failure to address fundamental issues of race, justice, and dissent. Yet despite years of widespread demonstrations calling for his freedom, few people really know who Mumia was before he became a death row "celebrity."
Most people know Mumia through his books Live from Death Row (1995), Death Blossoms (1996), and All Things Censored (2000), which cemented his reputation as a "voice of the voiceless." In On A Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, award-winning author Terry Bisson brings to life the man behind that voice. Now, for the first time, you can meet Mumia as student, radical, lover, father, and reporter. Covering a childhood in Philadelphia's projects, a turbulent youth in the Black Panther Party, a promising career in radio journalism, and a fateful sidewalk altercation that changed everything, Bisson's colorful sketches tell the story of one of the stormiest periods in American history, and of a young rebel who came of age in its crucible.
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