PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A Philadelphia judge said she intends to dismiss a request for a new trial made by Mumia Abu-Jamal's legal team. Supporters of Abu-Jamal rallied outside the Criminal Justice ...

SCRANTON, Pa. -- Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been granted a federal court hearing in Pennsylvania over the medical care he's received for hepatitis C and other health problems. Mumia ...

Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal’s writings and artwork have been acquired by Brown University. His papers will be included in the Ivy league school’s collection of papers that focus on mass ...

Convicted murderer Mumia Abu Jamal is set to deliver the commencement speech at a college in Vermont this weekend. This all while Abu Jamal is still in prison. Goddard College announced Mumia will ...

It has been one month since Mumia Abu-Jamal was in the intensive care unit of a Pennsylvania hospital near the prison where he is serving a life sentence for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel ...

Mumia Abu-Jamal was one of hundreds of journalists who received in the mail a packet of covertly-copied COINTELPRO documents. They were sent by eight activists who broke into FBI offices in Media, ...

A group of two dozen activists briefly blocks traffic during a rally outside the Philadelphia district attorney’s office on Friday. The group is urging District Attorney Larry Krasner to let stand a ...

Activist and free agent NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick called for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther who was convicted of killing a White Philadelphia police officer in 1981. He ...

Lee Wengraf reviews a new documentary on the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal--one that focuses on the period before he became a voice for justice from prison. MANY ON the left are familiar with the struggle ...

Pennsylvania Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is set to sign into law a bill critics say will trample the free speech rights of prisoners. Last week, lawmakers openly said they passed the legislation as a ...

A Philadelphia judge has reinstated appeal rights to Mumia Abu-Jamal — convicted of killing a city police officer more than 30 years ago — who has long maintained his innocence as his case gained ...