Former Black Panther Party official H. Rap Brown has died in a prison hospital after being convicted nearly 25 years ago in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia. He was 82. Brown’s widow Karima Al-Amin says he died Sunday at a federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina. She told The Associated Press that her husband had been suffering from cancer and had been transferred to the medical facility. Brown was one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s and decried heavy-handed policing in Black communities. He later converted to Islam and changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
