Mumia Abu-Jamal in popular culture

A polarizing figure, Mumia Abu-Jamal has attracted widespread attention in popular culture. Since at least 1995, there are examples of references to him in notable popular music recordings and musical performances. He and his case have been the subject of three documentary films and a shorter 20/20 television special which aired shortly after the 27th anniversary of his apprehension.

The references and treatment evoke him either as a representative of death row prisoners in the United States, as a revolutionary, as a man either deservingly or undeservingly subject to punishment, or as a convicted murderer capable of enlisting others to the cause of maintaining his life and opposing the imposition of capital punishment.


Music

Several notable musicians, including KRS-One, Chumbawamba, Rage Against the Machine, Unbound Allstars, Saul Williams, Anti-flag, Man Is the Bastard, Immortal Technique and Tupac Shakur have made references to abu-Jamal in their work.

Film

Anti-Mumia
Pro-Mumia

Sources and further reading

by Abu-Jamal, Mumia

  • Live from Death Row. HarperTrade, 1996. ISBN 978-0-380-72766-7
  • Ich Schreibe um zu Leben. Zeugnisse eines zum Tode Verurteilten (I Write to live. Testimonies of a Person Sentenced to Death). Atlantik (Bremen), 1997. ISBN 978-3-926529-20-6
  • All Things Censored. Seven Stories Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1-58322-022-1
  • Das Imperium kennt kein Gesetz (The Empire Knows No Law). Atlantik (Bremen), 2002. ISBN 978-3-926529-59-6
  • Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience. South End Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-89608-699-9
  • Faith of Our Fathers: An Examination of the Spiritual Life of African and African-American People. Africa World Press, 2003. ISBN 978-1-59221-019-0
  • We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party. South End Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-89608-718-7

Pro-Mumia

  • 1995 - Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty by Weinglass, Leonard. Common Courage Press, 1995. ISBN 978-1-56751-070-6
  • 1996 - In Defense of Mumia: An Anthology of Prose, Poetry and Art by S. E. Anderson and Tony Medina. New York : Writers & Readers Publishing, Inc.
  • 2000 - On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Bisson, Terry. Litmus Books, 2000. ISBN 978-0-87486-901-9
  • 2001 - The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance by Amnesty International. (Open Media Pamphlet Series). Open Media, 2001. ISBN 978-1-58322-081-8
  • 2002 - Executing Justice: An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Williams, Daniel R. St. Martin's Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-375-76124-9
  • 2002 - Killing Time:: An Investigation into the Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. by Lindorff, David. Common Courage Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1-56751-228-1
  • 2006 - Race Against Death. Mumia Abu-Jamal: a Black Revolutionary in White America by Schiffmann, Michael (Wettlauf gegen den Tod: Mumia Abu-Jamal - Ein schwarzer Revolutionär im weissen Amerika), Promedia Verlag, Vienna;
  • 2008 - The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal by O'Connor, J. Patrick Lawrence Hill Books
  • 2012 - Veronica & the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal as told to her sister Valerie Jones by Veronica Jones and Valerie Jones Self-published via Xlibris

Anti-Mumia

  • 2006 - Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Patron Saint of American Cop Killers by Hayden, John. iUniverse, 2006. ISBN 978-0-595-38474-7
  • 2007 - Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice by Faulkner, Maureen, Smerconish, Michael A.. The Lyons Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59921-376-7

Other

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