Ex-Black Panther Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is no more; his son, Kairi Al-Amin, has announced on Facebook. Kairi shared about his father’s demise, while asserting that “he’s free,” ...
A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention. By Paul Vitello Jamil Abdullah ...
It seemed like a fool’s errand to send Jamil Al-Amin a letter, expecting a response. But there I was, in the summer of 2019, reading his reply, sent from the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, Ariz. Peace ...
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 ...