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The spiritual leader, political prisoner, and revolutionary Imam Jamil Abdallah Al-Amin passed away in prison this Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Known by his alias “H. Rap Brown,” Al-Amin served as the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and as the Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. Al-Amin was a fierce supporter for Black Power and organized rebellion against white supremacy and state violence across the US.
In 1966, Al-Amin organized in Greene County, Alabama to secure Black voter registration and political power following the passage of the National Voting Rights Act. Two years later, Al-Amin helped represent and co-organize the April 1968 Columbia protests against university expansion into Harlem park land in order to build a gymnasium.
Because of his galvanizing force as an organizer and success at radicalizing youth, Al-Amin became a target of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, which systematically surveilled and attempted to bring down revolutionaries in the late 1960s across the US. It was in prison that Brown changed his name to Al-Amin and converted to Islam. From his cell, Al-Amin wrote of the need for organized revolutionary change while he was on hunger strike.
Despite Al-Amin not ultimately being liberated in this lifetime, his political thought and revolutionary legacy will endure as he passes onto the next.
