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Mumia Abu-Jamal (IPA: /ˈmu.mi.É É‘.buÊ" dÊ'É.ˈmÉ‘Ël/); (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) is an award-winning[4] journalist, former Black Panther Party member, cab driver, and writer, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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His parents named him Wesley Cook, and his father died when he was nine.[1] He learned the name Mumia in 1968 from his high school teacher who came from Kenya.[8] 'Abu-Jamal' means "father of Jamal", from Arabic).He took his new name after the birth of his son Jamal on July 18, 1971.[8][9] He has said 'Mumia' means "Prince" and that it was also used by Kenyas fighting against the presence of British soldiers in their country in the mid- 20th century.[10]
He has said he was "kicked into the Black Panther Party" as a teenager.At that time he was beaten up by whites who wanted to keep the black and white races apart as well as by police when tried to stop George Wallace from campaigning to become President of the United States in 1968.He was charged him with assault, but the judge dismissed the charge.In 1969 he helped form a branch of the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia.[11] He was their "Lieutenant of Information" who wrote news articles and political statements for them.In one interview he quoted Mao Zedong, when saying the Black Panthers had learned "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" because of how the police had behaved to them.[12] He quit Benjamin Franklin High School that year and moved out of home to live at the Panthers' Philadelphia headquarters.[11] The following year he lived with the Panthers in New York and then Oakland.He worked toward the Panther Party goals of creating racial awareness and economic independence in communities of African-Americans.[13] He was a Panther from May 1969 until October 1970.It is known that the FBI kept an observation file upon him in that time and later until about 1974.[14]
At age 19 he married Biba.She gave birth to Jamal just after, but the marriage did not last long.[15] Their daughter, Lateefa, was born in 1973.[3] His second wife Marilyn (or "Peachie") gave birth to his son Mazi in early 1978.[9][16] He began living with his third wife, Wadiya, not long before he was arrested and sent to prison.She is his wife now.[17]
When the BPP began to fall apart, he left them and went back to high school.He was not allowed to go to school for a shory time for handing out material urging "black revolutionary student power".[18] He had also led a campaign for the school name to be changed to Malcolm X High.[18] After getting his high school diploma, he studied for a few terms at Goddard College in Vermont.[19] By 1975 he was a radio news broadcaster at Temple University's radio station, then at other stations around Philadelphia afterwards.[18] In 1975, he worked at radio station WHAT in Philadelphia.He became the host of a weekly feature program of WCAU-FM in 1978.[20] He was employed for short periods at station WPEN, and became active for the Marijuana Users Association of America.[20] From 1979 he worked at WUHY until 1981 when he was asked to leave because his boss had a concern about him not being fair in covering news.[20] He was known as "the voice of the voiceless" among many in Philadelphia.He spoke and wrote for a group known as MOVE that had formed a naturist commune in the Powelton Village neighborhood.In 1979-80 he reported the trial of nine MOVE members who had been charged with the murder of a police officer.[20] At the time of his arrest for murder, he worked as a cab driver.[21] He also was President of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists[22] and was working part-time as a reporter for WDAS,[20] a station for black listeners with black owners and presenters.[23]
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Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 17, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ danielfaulkner.com summary of case facts (p. 2) (PDF).Justice for P/O Daniel Faulkner (1998).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ Trial Transcript §3.216.Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 19, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ Trial Transcript §3.226.Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 19, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ PCRA Hearing Transcript pp.5-6.Commonwealth vs.Mumia Abu-Jamal aka Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Criminal Trial Division (August 15 1995). ↑ Trial Transcript §3.210-§3.211.Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 19, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Trial Transcript §3.235-§3.247.Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 19, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007.
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Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 21, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007.
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Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 25, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ Trial Transcript pp.75 ff..Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 25, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ Trial Transcript pp.29, 31, 34, 137, 162 and 164.Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 24, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ .38 Special LSWCHP +P: Still a Top Load?.Hipowersandhandguns.com.Retrieved on 18 October 2007. ↑ Trial Transcript p.169.Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 23, 1982).Retrieved on 18 October 2007.
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Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 30, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007. ↑ Trial Transcript p.19-30.Commonwealth v. Mumia Abu-Jamal a.k.a. Wesley Cook.Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Criminal Trial Division (June 30, 1982).Retrieved on 30 October 2007.
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