v261 - Mumia Abu-Jamal - "175 Progress Drive"

This features rare interviews by and with journalist and 20 year Pennsylvania death row resident Mumia Abu-Jamal. Produced by Anita Johnson of Hardknock Radio in association with Weyland Southon. Executive Producer : Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a prolific journalist whose best-selling books of essays have sold over 150,000 copies and have been translated into seven languages.Banned, censored and held in solitary confinement for over a decade in a supermaximum security prison with a death sentence looming, Mumia Abu-Jamal continues to write and speak from death row. He has become the most famous political prisoner in the world. A political man, a journalist, a former Black Panther, a man who proclaims his innocence. Mumia Abu-Jamal is the conscience of America. A prolific writer and author of three searing compilations of essays Live From Death Row (Addison Wesley & Avon), Death Blossoms (Plough) and All Things Censored (Seven Stories).New essays by the worl