The brief essays here offer small but potent doses of Abu-Jamal’s informed and impassioned writing.
Ever since he wrote for the Black Panther Party's national newspaper as a youth, Mumia has reported on the racism and inequity in our society. Sentenced with execution, Mumia has lived on Death Row since 1982. “The rage of protest,” he observes, is often followed by silence, and “the silent assault of mass incarceration” persists. Mumia Abu-Jamal, an award-winning journalist, is America's best-known political prisoner.
Over the course of nearly four decades in prison, Abu-Jamal, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the shooting of a policeman (a conviction that was overturned in 2001), has become an astute student of the justice system as well as a particularly cogent opponent of the death penalty. While the author does reflect on the widely reported cases of police violence against African-Americans, as well as on the role of the media in determining what gets attention, the strength of the book rests in the essays that draw attention to lesser-known victims of police violence, particularly women of color whose stories never reached the mainstream media. O元353722W Page_number_confidence 81.14 Pages 230 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.11 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210417093707 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 401 Scandate 20210407111026 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780380727667 Tts_version 4.The 75 pithy essays collected here, written between 19 by political activist and journalist Abu-Jamal ( Live from Death Row), possess the impact and immediacy of the events that precipitated them (half of the essays are set in motion by the recent killings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown) while also being haunted by the longer history of police violence. Urn:lcp:livefromdeathrow0000abuj:epub:904aa169-d88c-47f8-a0a5-9ebb8ffa8c30 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier livefromdeathrow0000abuj Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4cp7qb1h Invoice 2089 Isbn 0380727668 Lccn 94045952 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9813 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19728 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:00:52 Boxid IA40089219 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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