Editing Mumia Abu-Jamal (section)

== Marriages and family ==
Cook adopted the surname Abu-Jamal ("father of Jamal" in [[Arabic]]) after the birth of his first child, son Jamal, on July 18, 1971.<ref name="burI" /><ref name="bur4">{{cite web | last=Burroughs | first=Todd Steven | title=Part IV: Leaving the Party | work=Ready to Party: Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Black Panther Party | publisher=The College of New Jersey | year=2004 | url=http://www.tcnj.edu/~kpearson/Mumia/parrt4.htm | access-date=January 22, 2008 | archive-date=January 3, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103000721/http://www.tcnj.edu/~kpearson/Mumia/parrt4.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> He married Jamal's mother Biba in 1973, but they did not stay together long.<ref>Bisson, p.119 quoted at {{cite web | title=The Religious Affiliation of Mumia Abu-Jamal | publisher=Adherents.com | date=September 3, 2005 | url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pa/Mumia_AbuJamal.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210014849/http://www.adherents.com/people/pa/Mumia_AbuJamal.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=February 10, 2006 | access-date=January 22, 2008}}</ref> Their daughter, Lateefa, was born shortly after the wedding.<ref name="majfamily">{{cite web | last=Burroughs | first=Todd Steven | title=Mumia Abu-Jamal's Family Faces Future While Fighting Fear 20th Anniversary of 1981 Shooting Approaches | publisher=[[NNPA]] News Service | date=December 2001 | url=http://drumsintheglobalvillage.com/2006/12/01/remembering-13th-and-locust-25-years-later/ | access-date=November 27, 2012 | archive-date=January 8, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108233442/http://drumsintheglobalvillage.com/2006/12/01/remembering-13th-and-locust-25-years-later/ | url-status=live }}</ref> The couple divorced.

In 1977, Abu-Jamal married again, to his second wife, Marilyn (known as "Peachie").<ref name="bur4" /><ref name="Oxford">{{cite web|last=Phelps|first=Christopher|author-link=Christopher Phelps|url=http://www2.oxfordaasc.com/article/opr/t0001/e1847|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211021103/http://www2.oxfordaasc.com/article/opr/t0001/e1847|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 11, 2012|title=Abu-Jamal, Mumia|work=African American National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=December 27, 2011}}</ref> Their son, Mazi, was born in early 1978.<ref>See ages given in: {{cite web |last=Vann |first=Bill |title=Tens of thousands rally in Philadelphia for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal |work=World Socialist Web Site news |publisher=[[International Committee of the Fourth International]] |date=April 27, 1999 |url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/apr1999/maj-a27.shtml |access-date=January 22, 2008}} and {{cite magazine |last=Erard |first=Michael |title=A Radical in the Family |magazine=[[The Texas Observer]] |date=July 4, 2003 |url=http://www.michaelerard.com/fulltext/2006/08/a_radical_in_the_family_texas.html |access-date=January 22, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219171918/http://www.michaelerard.com/fulltext/2006/08/a_radical_in_the_family_texas.html |archive-date=December 19, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> By 1981, Abu-Jamal had divorced Peachie and had married his third (and last) wife, Wadiya, who died unexpectedly on December 27, 2022.<ref name="Oxford" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bringmumiahome.com/wadiya-jamal-the-wife-of-mumia-abu-jamal-passes-away-on-december-27-2022/,%20https://bringmumiahome.com/wadiya-jamal-the-wife-of-mumia-abu-jamal-passes-away-on-december-27-2022/|title=Wadiya Jamal, the wife of Mumia Abu-Jamal, passes away on December…|first=Dawn|last=Reel|website=bringmumiahome.com}}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="auto"/>