*H. Rap Brown, later known as Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, died yesterday (11-23-25) at the age of 82. He passed away while incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, after ...
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 ...
Hip-Hop didn’t invent rebellion, it inherited the fire from H. Rap Brown long before the culture had a name. Growing up, my parents were not overtly activists or political. But there were clues. One ...