Rap Brown did not wait for permission to define himself. Long before federal agents called him a menace and politicians wrote laws in his name, he was a young man from Baton Rouge who believed the ...

Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal are on a 103-mile, 12-day march ending Tuesday in Frackville, Pennsylvania, where he is imprisoned at the Mahanoy state prison. The march ends on the same day Abu-Jamal ...

Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal are on a 103-mile, ...

H. Rap Brown speaking at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee news conference in 1967. PHOTO: MARION S. TRIKOSKO At the end of his book, “Die Nigger Die!,” H. Rap Brown wrote, “This country was ...

H. Rap Brown did not wait for permission to define himself. Long before federal agents called him a menace and politicians wrote laws in his name, he was a young man from Baton Rouge who believed the ...

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the fiery speaker and agitator known as H. Rap Brown when he led the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee down the path of black nationalism in the 1960s, has died in ...

IMAM JAMIL AL-AMIN: As H. Rap Brown, became chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and minister of justice for the Black Panther Party. Later as an Atlanta spiritual leader opened a ...

H. Rap Brown, a vocal leader of the Black Power movement who was charged with inciting a riot on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1967, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the ...

BUTNER, N.C. -- Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the Black Power movement leader formerly known as H. Rap Brown, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff ...

ATLANTA — A prominent civil rights leader and former member of the Black Panther Party has died in prison nearly 25 years after being convicted of killing a Fulton County Sheriff’s deputy. He was ...