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 world's most famous prisoner --Mumia Abu-Jamal, journalist and resident of Pennsylvania's death row for twenty years. Rare recently discovered excerpts of Mumia Abu-Jamal radio reports for NPR and Philadelphia radio stations- including interviews with Bob Marley, Hugh Masekela, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis and the people of Philadelphia. New essays read by Mumia from prison. Also Mumia's essays read by Peter Coyote and Ruby Dee. Plus statements by Assata Shakur, Rubin Hurricane Carter and Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Includes the music : "Rocks The World" by Mumia 911 Unbound Allstars (featuring Chuck D, Zack De La Rocha, dead prez, and Pharoahe Monch). Also includes : "I was Born With Two Tongues", and "Seeds of Wisdom".

From : MUSIC : NEWS , Rolling Stone.com

De La Rocha Joins Mumia CD

"Death-row inmate to release third album Former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha and Public Enemy's Chuck D are among the artists featured on the forthcoming album from Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is on death-row in a Philadelphia prison for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal, who worked as a journalist and activist prior to his conviction, has maintained his innocence for twenty years. Artists like Rage Against the Machine and the Beastie Boys have been long-time supporters of his cause, as have other civil rights groups like Amnesty International.

Abu-Jamal's album, due June 26th on Alternative Tentacles Records, is titled 175 Progress Drive, the address of the prison where Abu-Jamal has been jailed. The album will contain both spoken word and music. Unbound Allstars, composed of Dead Prez, Pharaohe Monch as well as Chuck D and De La Rocha, perform on the track "Mumia 911." The spoken word component of the recording contains Abu-Jamal's interviews with Bob Marley, Jimmy Carter, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Hugh Masekela and others. Actors Peter Coyote and Ruby Dee as well as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader Assata Shakur read essays and poetry written by Abu-Jamal. This will be Abu-Jamal's third recording, all on Alternative Tentacles, which was founded by former Dead Kennedy's frontman/activist Jello Biafra.

His previous recordings were both spoken word: 1997's Man is the Bastard, which featured Henry Rollins, Biafra and poet Allen Ginsberg, and 1998's All Things Censored, Vol. 1, which featured novelist Alice Walker and actor Martin Sheen".

CHRISTINA SARACENO (May 21, 2001)