This year was the NAACP’s 100th anniversary, and while Obama’s address garnered most of the media attention another significant event took place- the NAACP passed a resolution asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Mumia’s trial was riddled with corruption and malpractice- from a bigoted judge, to police misconduct in gathering evidence to the suppression of witnesses. Linn Washington Jr. has written a succinct but encompassing look at the many examples which made Mumia’s trial unfair.
Hopefully with the resolution from the NAACP and pressure from us at the grassroots we can give Mumia a new trial and with the eyes of the world upon it, go a bit more fairly than the first time.