The former H. Rap Brown -- who later in life changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin -- shown in this July 1990 photo, was a 1960s civil rights revolutionary who once exhorted Blacks to arm ...

H. Rap Brown, a vocal leader of the Black Power movement who was charged with inciting a riot on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1967, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the ...

ATLANTA — A prominent civil rights leader and former member of the Black Panther Party has died in prison nearly 25 years after being convicted of killing a Fulton County Sheriff’s deputy. He was ...

BUTNER, N.C.(AP) — H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy.