The controversial Black liberation activist formerly known as Joanne Deborah Chesimard fled to Cuba after escaping a New ...
Assata Shakur, a political activist who sought asylum in Cuba following her 1977 conviction in the killing of a state trooper ...
We take a look back at one of the Black Liberation Army's most iconic and controversial members, Assata Shakur ...
Shakur died Thursday in the capital city of Havana due to “health conditions and advanced age,” Cuba's Ministry of Foreign ...
Chesimard had lived in Cuba since 1979 after escaping from a New Jersey prison after being convicted of killing New Jersey ...
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 ...
Assata Shakur, a radical black militant fugitive who murdered a New Jersey state trooper, died of natural causes in Cuba at ...
Black activist and fugitive Assata Shakur dies at 78 in Cuba, reigniting debate over her legacy and U.S. justice.
JoAnne Deborah Byron, better known as ‘Assata Shakur,’ was born on July 16, 1947, in Queens, New York, The Guardian reported.