Assata Shakur's story will be told in a new documentary by Giselle and Stephen Bailey, with Angela Davis serving as producer.
Assata, who was 78, died in Cuba, where she received political asylum from Fidel Castro after fleeing the United States following a conviction for taking part in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state ...
Shortly after arriving in Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly ...
Havana (CNN) — Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member and fugitive with a $2 million FBI reward on her head, died in Havana where she had received political asylum from Fidel Castro, the ...
Assata Shakur, a political activist and the godmother of pioneering rapper Tupac Shakur, died Sept. 25. She was 78. Her death was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba, where she had ...
FBI Director Kash Patel has cautioned against honoring Assata Shakur after her passing in Cuba, labeling the former Black Liberation Army member and Tupac Shakur's godmother a terrorist. In remarks on ...
(Gray News) - Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist wanted by the FBI since she escaped a U.S. prison in 1979, has died in Cuba. Shakur, who was born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, died Thursday in ...