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- Birth nameHubert Rap Brown
- H. Rap Brown was born on October 4, 1943 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. He is married to Karima. They have two children.
- SpouseKarima(? - present) (2 children)
- Brown changed his name when he converted to the Dar-ul Islam movement in the '70s while serving a five-year sentence for his role in a robbery that ended in a shootout with New York police.
- Al-Amin is better known as H. Rap Brown, who served as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1967, he characterized violence as a vital tool for blacks, "as American as cherry pie."
- Al-Amin leads one of the nation's largest black Muslim groups, the National Ummah. The movement, which has formed 36 mosques around the nation, is credited with revitalizing poverty-stricken pockets such as Atlanta's West End, where Al-Amin owned a grocery store.
- Jurors deliberated 10 hours over two days before finding the Muslim cleric now called Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin guilty of shooting to death Deputy Ricky Kinchen and wounding Deputy Aldranon English on a southwest Atlanta street.
- He is currently serving a life sentence for murder following the shooting of two black Fulton County Sheriff's deputies in 2000.
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