Muhammad Ahmad

Known for Acting

7/31/1941(Age 84)

Biography

Muhammad Ahmad, also known as Max Stanford and Maxwell Curtis Stanford, is an American civil rights activist and one of the founders of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a Marxist–Leninist black power organization, which was active from 1962 to 1968. He currently teaches in the department of African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.

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Movie

COINTELPRO 101

2010

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.