Please join this important conversation with Jalil Muntaqim. The SUNY Brockport community and the general public are invited. You don’t want to miss it! Thank you!
Jalil Muntaqim, also known as Anthony Bottom, was born October 18, 1951 in Oakland, CA. He attended middle and high school in San Francisco, CA, and participated in AP math and chemistry programs. Jalil was a teen activist for the NAACP, and joined the Black Panther Party at age 18. On August 28, 1971, he was captured along with Nuh Washington during a midnight shoot-out with San Francisco Police. Mr. Muntaqim spent 49 years in prison, where he was an avid educator with individuals confined, co-founded the Jericho Movement, and initiated the International Jericho March on Washington (1998) and We Charge Genocide: International Tribunal to the United Nations (October 2021). Jalil is author of the seminal work, We Are Our Own Liberators. He gained his freedom in fall 2019, and currently resides in Rochester, NY. He earned a Bachelor’s of Art and Science in Psychology and Sociology, respectively, from SUNY New Paltz, and lectured at Niagara University and University of Rochester.
He is a member of Citizens Action Network and People Liberation Program (PLP), as well as a grandfather, father, mentor to many, and loving human being.