Former Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown dies in prison hospital at 82

The former H. Rap Brown -- who later in life changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin -- shown in this July 1990 photo, was a 1960s civil rights revolutionary who once exhorted Blacks to arm themselves because violence is ''as American as cherry pie." Tam Chappell/AP Butner, North Carolina AP —

H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82.

Brown — who later in life changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin — died Sunday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, his widow, Karima Al-Amin, said Monday.

A cause of death was not immediately available, but Karima Al-Amin told The Associated Press that her husband had been