Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who as H. Rap Brown defined Black militancy in the 1960s with a call to arms against white oppression, and who later lived quietly as a Muslim cleric and shopkeeper until his ...
BUTNER, N.C. -- Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the Black Power movement leader formerly known as H. Rap Brown, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff ...
A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention. By Paul Vitello Jamil Abdullah ...