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Jan 2024
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Radical, with Mosi Secret

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Before converting to Islam, Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was a Black Power activist named H. Rap Brown. Like Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael, he was targeted by COINTELPRO the FBI’s counter intelligence program. In 2000, he was convicted of shooting two sheriff’s deputies — one fatally — outside a mosque in Atlanta’s West End. Tonight, the Ben and Matt join journalist Mosi Secret to learn more about his new podcast Radical, an exclusive deep dive into

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