UPDATE: A list of scheduled presenters has been added, and is presented below.

Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (APPHRC) is organizing an event to pay tribute to Imam Jamil Al-Amin, who passed on to the Honored Ancestors on November 23, 2025.  APPHRC had been an advocate for his exoneration and release for many years, including having spokespeople for him, including his son, as guests on Sis. Tomiko’s Internet radio shows “Africa 500” and “The REvolution Is Black Love”. 

Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was arrested and convicted in March 2002 for the shooting death of an Atlanta deputy sheriff.  He had been a target of law enforcement ever since his days in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Black Panther Party (BPP) as H. Rap Brown, when he had been a “militant” Black Power activist and a fugitive from justice due to trumped-up charges in the 1960s under the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) COINTELPRO operation.

The Imam as well as advocates in his case have protested his innocence ever since and were working diligently to establish his innocence, exoneration and release.  The Imam had been in ill health over the last few years, which increased concern that he would become yet another Political Prisoner from the freedom struggles of the 1960s to pass on to the Ancestors behind bars.

The event will be held on Saturday, December 20 from 12 noon to 4 pm at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge at 1307 Eutaw Place in Baltimore.  People who knew him and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with him in the struggle from the days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to his days as a respected Atlanta-area Imam from South Carolina to New York City have been invited to participate and make statements.  The flyer for the event is included above, and a  current list of presenters is included below.