Remembering Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin – the freedom fighter known as H. Rap Brown

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, known as H. Rap Brown in the 1960s, dies in federal prison at 82

H. Rap Brown became one of many figures associated with the civil rights struggle who attracted the attention of the FBI, then headed by the notorious racist and red-baiter J. Edgar Hoover.

Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Presente!

To speak of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) is to speak of a life lived in courageous chapters.

Remembering Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin – the freedom fighter known as H. Rap Brown

At the end of his book, Die Nigger Die, H. Rap Brown wrote, “This country was born of violence. Violence is as American as cherry pie. Black people have always been violent, but our violence has always been directed toward each other.” Over the course of his long career of activism, including being chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) was never far from violence, though he died nonviole…

Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown dies in prison at 82

BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82.