Updated autobiography of Rap Brown to be released in April

ATLANTA - An updated version of the autobiography of the &#39;60s radical once known as H. Rap Brown will be released in April, the Chicago Review Press announced Thursday. <br> <br> The man now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin is on trial for murder in Atlanta in the shooting death of a Fulton County deputy on March 16, 2000. <br> <br> ``Die Nigger Die!&#39;&#39;, which was first published by Lawrence Hill Books in 1969, went through seven printings. It will stay the same except for a new foreword written by Ekwueme Michael Thelwell. <br> <br> The foreword is critical of Al-Amin&#39;s confinement since his arrest and also mentions Al-Amin&#39;s transformation from H. Rap Brown to a Muslim cleric. <br> <br> ``As of this writing, Imam Al-Amin has been ... incarcerated under conditions which seem unnecessarily draconian,&#39;&#39; Thelwell wrote. ``In solitary confinement, he was for a time deprived of his Holy Quran.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Jury selection for the trial is under way. The trial is expected to last two months.