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I tracked down Tupac’s godmother Assata Shakur, the FBI’s most wanted in Cuba, as a CNN intern. It was surprisingly easy

“He thought I was tourist, if he only knew,” Shakur told me. “Look there’s racism here, there’s racism in the United States. The difference is that the people at the top in the United States are the ...

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Assata Shakur died in Cuba. Nearly 50 years ago, she was convicted of killing a New Jersey trooper.

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Assata Shakur, Black liberation figure and activist sought by US, dies in Cuba

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Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army member convicted of killing a state trooper, dies at 78

Black liberation activist and American fugitive Assata Shakur, who escaped to Cuba more than 45 years ago after she was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, died in Havana, the government...

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Assata Shakur, Convicted Black Liberationist and Tupac’s Godmother, Dead at 78

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Assata Shakur, Black revolutionary on F.B.I.'s most wanted list, dies in Cuba

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Assata Shakur, black liberation activist exiled in Cuba, dies at 78

Shakur maintained her innocence and reappeared in Cuba in 1984 where she was granted asylum by former president Fidel Castro.

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Assata Shakur dies in Cuba after decades on the run

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Political activist Assata Shakur confirmed dead at 78 by Cuban officials

Assata Shakur, Political Activist Who Sought Asylum in Cuba, Dead at 78

Assata Shakur, a political activist who sought asylum in Cuba following her 1977 conviction in the killing of a state trooper, has died. Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs shared a statement on Friday, Sept. 26, revealing that Shakur, whose legal name was Joanne Deborah Byron, had died in Havana one day earlier.

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Many mourn death of Assata Shakur, exiled Black liberation activist and global symbol of resistance

Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member who escaped a U.S. prison and lived in exile in Cuba for more than four decades, has died at 78. To some she was a fugitive and convicted killer,