PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP)PO BOX 22505NEWARK, NJ 07101973 801-0001CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM NOVEMBER 26, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS WILL PARTICIPATE IN 100 MILE MARCH FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL POP CHAIRMAN LAWRENCE HAMM WILL MARCH FOR MUMIA The People’s Organization for Progress (POP) will participate in a 103-mile march to draw attention to the worsening medical condition of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

....the 40th anniversary of my first published article ever, done for the 4,000-circulation weekly. It was about a huge anti-apartheid march in Newark, N.J. I was folded into The New Jersey Afro-American by Deborah P. Smith-Gregory, the article's key and lead author. Deborah worked for local Afro legends Harry B. Webber and editor-in-chief Bob Queen. She would succeed him in 1987, becoming the paper's first woman editor.

PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP)PO BOX 22505NEWARK, NJ 07101973 801-0001CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM NOVEMBER 26, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS WILL PARTICIP…