Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who as H. Rap Brown defined Black militancy in the 1960s with a call to arms against white oppression, and who later lived quietly as a Muslim cleric and shopkeeper until his ...

Arun Kundnani received one of the 2024 creative nonfiction grants from the Whiting Foundation for his work documenting incarcerated civil rights activist Jamal Al-Amin, being the first person to ...

Black August Month has now officially kicked off. The event is a widespread call to action that encompasses fasting, raising awareness, and offering resources for political prisoners. It is a ...

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 ...

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was born Hubert Gerold Brown in Baton Rouge, La., in 1943. He was the youngest of three, raised by Eddie, a laborer, and Thelma, a maid and teacher. Brown looked up to his ...

The new Tenderfoot podcast series 'Radical' takes a look at the nuances of the investigation that led to the arrest and life sentencing of Jamil al-Amin for the murder of two Fulton County deputies.

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore City taxpayer dollars fund an organization that instructed children to “advocate on behalf of” criminals who were convicted of murdering a police officer and attempting to ...

In Atlanta, the trial of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin is underway. The former 1960's Black Panther known as H. Rap Brown is accused of shooting two Sheriff's deputies attempting to serve him with an arrest ...

Jamil Al-Amin, the former 1960s black militant once known as H. Rap Brown, lost a bid in the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday to overturn his conviction for the shooting death of a sheriff’s deputy ...

NPR's Joshua Levs reports that testimony gets underway this week in the capital murder trial of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Al-Amin, known as H. Rap Brown during the late '60s when he was a high-profile ...