Karim Njabafudi

Karim Hekima Oman Wadu Njabafudi — born Larry Jackson in New Orleans, also recorded as Karim and "Brother Black" — was a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika and, at about fifteen, the youngest of the RNA-11 arrested in the August 18, 1971 FBI and Jackson police raid on the RNA Provisional Government residence at 1148 Lewis Street in Jackson, Mississippi. A contemporary 1971 booklet preserved by the Amistad Research Center gives his full adopted name and identifies him as Larry Jackson, and federal court records identify him as "Larry Jackson, a/k/a Karim and Brother Black."

At about 6:30 that morning, agents and police holding a fugitive warrant for another man and misdemeanor warrants for three people — one of them a warrant for "Larry, last name unknown", later identified as him, over an alleged assault on a newspaper reporter at RNA headquarters — surrounded the house and fired tear gas. In the gun battle that followed, Jackson police lieutenant William L. Skinner was killed and another officer and an FBI agent were wounded; the seven occupants then surrendered. Court testimony attributed the fatal shot to Hekima Ana, not to Njabafudi, who reportedly told agents he had fired a .30-06 rifle from the west side of the house. Mississippi convicted him of murder as an aider and abettor, under a statute treating an accessory before the fact as a principal.

Tried from September 22, 1972 — venue moved from Hinds County to Lauderdale County — he was convicted and sentenced to life on September 25, 1972, expressly in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed on March 24, 1975 and denied rehearing on May 12, 1975. He was released in November 1979.

The federal court dismissed him from the adult federal prosecution of the RNA defendants because he was a juvenile who had not waived his rights under the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act; the government said it would proceed against him separately as a juvenile, but no judgment proving that prosecution or any federal sentence has been located, so claims of a federal fifteen-year term are unresolved. His birth date is likewise unresolved: the Mississippi Supreme Court put his age at fifteen and two-thirds on the day of the raid, implying a birth around December 1955, while a federal footnote called him sixteen; the year is entered at circa precision and no exact date is inferred.

He is not the Larry Jackson of the November 1970 New Orleans Black Panther raid — that alias belonged to John England Morris Jr., who has his own record in this database.