Her The war before, 2010 t.p. (Safiya Bukhari) data view (b. 1950; d. 2003) back cover (Born in the Bronx, Safiya Bukhari joined the Black Panther Party in 1969, embarking on a lifelong commitment to community organizing. After serving nine years in prison on charges related to the Black Liberation Army, she was relseased in 1983 and co-founded the New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition and other organizations advocating for the release of political prisoners. She died in 2003 at the age of fifty-three)