Remembering Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin: Activist Formerly Known as H. Rap Brown Dead at 82

Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the civil rights activist formerly known as H. Rap Brown, died at age 82 in a North Carolina federal medical facility while serving time for a 2000 shooting he consistently denied committing. Rising from street activist in Baton Rouge to chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at 23, he became a prominent Black Power movement figure whose fiery rhetoric prompted Congress to pass the "H.