Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Cuba, where she had fled to after escaping from prison, Cuban officials ...

Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, a political and human rights activist, has died at the age of 78, according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cuban authorities said the former ...

Several Chicago alderpeople on Monday denounced the Chicago Teachers Union for a social media post honoring Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur. Shakur died last week at the age of 78. To some, ...

Assata Shakur, the freedom-fighting member of the Black Liberation Army and author of Assata: An Autobiography, stands as a powerful and iconic symbol of resistance and survival. Shakur died at the ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947, in Queens, New York, raised partly in the South and back in New York by her teens, she dropped out of high school at 17, drifting through odd jobs and ...

Assata Shakur Doc & Scripted Series Reportedly In Development Assata Shakur Doc & Scripted Series Reportedly In Development Assata Shakur, who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black ...