H. Rap Brown, a prominent figure in the Black Power movement, has died at the age of 82 while serving a life sentence for the murder of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy.
Brown, who later changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, passed away on Sunday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, according to his widow, Karima Al-Amin.
He was convicted in 2002 for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Ricky Kinchen and had been suffering from cancer, which led to his transfer to the medical facility in 2014…