Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and former Black Panther Party member whose previous books include Live From Death Row, Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, All Things Censored, and Faith of our Fathers: An Examination of the Spiritual Life of African and African-American People. America s best-known political prisoner, he has been living in Pennsylvania prisons since 1982, the majority of those on death row.