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Excerpt: “The man that the world knows simply as Mumia is a prolific writer and radio journalist, who has maintained equanimity in the face of an unrelenting campaign of persecution and demonization at the hands of the Pennsylvania courts and Fraternal Order of the Police.
In the United States, his recorded commentaries and live interviews are requested every week by local radio programmes that are seeking to connect with thousands of listeners who are daily affected by mass incarceration and the growing surveillance and policing of predominantly black and Latino urban communities across the country.
For many, the case of the most famous prisoner in the world is a primer for understanding the relationship between racism and the criminal justice system in the US in the post-civil rights era.” READ THE FULL ESSAY AT AL JAZEERA ONLINE.
