Mumia Abu Jamal

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Johanna Fernández and her Unrelenting Advocacy for Mumia Abu Jamal
19 Aug 2026
The late Dr. Johanna Fernández left an awesome intellectual and activist legacy that includes her 2010 documentary film “Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.”
Julia Wright
A Tribute to Johanna Fernandez
04 Aug 2026
Johanna Fernandez left a powerful and revolutionary legacy through her scholarship and activism.
Stevie Wilson
When I Heard of the Passing of Johanna Fernandez
04 Aug 2026
Johanna Fernandez touched many lives through her scholarship, activism, and belief that people themselves can change history and be "the ones we've been waiting for."
Julia Wright , Jenipher R. Jones, Esq.
Statement by Julia Wright, Liaising for the Mumia Abu-Jamal International Collectives & the Leonard Peltier Official Ad Hoc Committee Bandung of the North Conference 2024
02 Oct 2024
The Bandung of the North Conference brought delegates from twenty-nine African and Asian nations, to work collectively toward decolonization. Julia Wright and Jenipher R. Jones delivered these…
Julia Wright
How to Resist the Deliberate Medical Neglect of Our Political Prisoners
28 Feb 2024
The state uses tactics such as medical neglect, to slowly assassinate political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Noelle Hanrahan
Judge Clemons Denies a New Trial for Mumia Abu Jamal
05 Apr 2023
A judge denied political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal a new trial, and in so doing denies prosecutorial misconduct, suborning of perjury, and other wrongdoing committed against him.
Johanna Fernández
New Legal Filing in Mumia’s Case
12 Jan 2022
2022 may be the year that new evidence is released in the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal.
Janine Jackson
If Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Is a ‘Non-Issue,’ Why Have Media Gone to Such Lengths to Silence Him?
12 May 2021
The corporate media is second only to the police in spreading falsehoods about the nation’s best known political prisoner.
An Interview with Johanna Fernandez
Mumia Abu-Jamal: State Running Scared, Trying to Make Sure He Dies in Prison
29 Apr 2021
Mumia’s case always raises larger questions about the barbarism of the criminal justice system.
The Jamal Journal staff
Mumia Abu-Jamal's Health Emergency: The Only Treatment is Freedom
17 Mar 2021
An interview with Ricardo Alvarez, Mumia’s “movement” doctor. “The most important point of advocacy is for the release of all our elders in COVID prisons.”