Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the Black Power activist previously known as H. Rap Brown, died Sunday in a North Carolina federal prison hospital. Al-Amin, one of the key figures of the militant Black Power ...

An outspoken civil rights activist and former leader in the Black Panther Party who was convicted of killing a Fulton County deputy has died. He was 82. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the mid-1960s, Stokely Carmichael ...

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 ...