3+ hour, 59+ min ago (476+ words) BUTNER, N.C. " 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. Like other more militant Black leaders and organizers during the racial upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brown decried heavy-handed policing in Black communities. He once stated that violence was "as American as cherry pie." "Violence is a part of America's culture," he said during a 1967 news conference. " America taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression, if necessary. We will be free by any means necessary....