His name is Muhammad Ahmad, and if this name doesn’t ring a bell, well, don’t be surprised, for it indicates how media has supported the Civil Rights Movement while ignoring and downplaying the Black Liberation Movement.
Dr. Muhammad Ahmad, a celebrated scholar activist, has had a long and impressive history as a member of RAM, the Revolutionary Action Movement, the chairman of the African People’s Party, APP, and, for over five years, a Black political prisoner in Philadelphia, New York City, and, San Diego, California. He supported the pre-Newton formations of the Black Panther Party, the group mostly based on the East Coast, as well as the Republic of New Africa, RNA, which fought for the separation of five Southern states, for Black settlement as a land base for an independent Black nation. RAM, which operated in Philadelphia and New York City, named Robert Williams, formerly of the NAACP chapter in Monroe, North Carolina, its president in exile while Williams lived in Cuba and later China.
Dr. Muhammad Ahmad’s own book, which I believe was titled, Look for Me in the Whirlwind, is a delightful telling of him growing up in West Philadelphia, where the now legendary figure, Queen Mother Moore, became one of his teachers and allowed him to use her extensive library for study and research. Dr. Ahmad taught for years at Temple and lived more history than is often written in books. We applaud for his significant role in our freedom struggle for freedom and independence for Black people. With love, not fear, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.
