We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party

From the title of this work, the reader might expect a straight memoir of political activist, journalist, and death row prisoner Mumia Abu- Jamal's time in the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP). However, while the author does incorporate some personal reminiscences into his work, the vast majority of the text is a general historical discussion of the radical black liberation group, its strengths and weaknesses, and the continuous (and successful) efforts by the FBI to destroy …