Global peace and justice communities lost a warrior queen on July 30, 2026, when Dr. Johanna Fernández, associate professor ...

The former Black Panther’s lawyers ask a UN panel to review his detention after US legal avenues were exhausted ...

Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of a police officer, became the face of the anti-death penalty movement and a widely published commentator on the prison system. By Jennifer Schuessler Gov. Tom ...

World-renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is 72 years old, suffering multiple health problems, and may die in prison, say legal advocates in a new request they filed today that asks the United ...

An exhibit titled “Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration,” will be displayed across campus in the John Hay Library, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, the Center for the Study of Race ...

Prosecutors have called off their 30-year battle to execute former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal for murdering a white police officer, putting to an end the racially charged case that became a major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Rowan Returns for a Bluegrass Master Class Seven minutes from bucolic Molly Maguire Historical Park in Frackville, ...

SCRANTON, Pa. -- Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, who accuses prison officials of improper medical care, told a federal judge Friday that he suffered painful itching and swelling from a rash ...

On Wednesday, activist and scholar Angela Davis kicked off the University's three-day Voices of Mass Incarceration symposium at a keynote conversation titled “The Feminist Fight to Bring Mumia Home.” ...

*Each December 9th, in Philadelphia, two memorials stand on the same street, in different worlds. On Locust Street in Center City, only a few hundred feet separate the Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame ...

FRACKVILLE — “Free Mumia!” about 50 people chanted Tuesday as they completed their March for Mumia, a 103-mile rally that aimed to raise awareness for medical care in prisons. On Nov. 28, marchers in ...

She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers. By Richard Sandomir Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of a police officer, became the ...