OVE crisis, in which a black neighborhood was firebombed in an attempt to deal with a radical, back-to-nature black group, led to his being fired from his radio job.
He was earning his living as a cab driver in the predawn hours of December 9, 1981, when he witnessed a police officer trying to arrest his brother for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. In the ensuing scuffle, the policeman was shot to death, and Abu-Jamal was accused and convicted of his murder. In a trial filled with errors, Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death. His case has been on appeal ever since and has attracted considerable media and celebrity attention, both to his cause and to the plight of many black men railroaded through the courts and unable to afford high-powered legal defense teams.
Live from Death Row is a collection of brief essays expressing the author's outrage at the death row process, the criminal justice system, and the plight of many blacks in America. Abu-Jamal's supporters claim that publica
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