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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE — Joanne Chesimard, who used the name Assata Shakur and was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, ...

We lost Assata Shakur, one of our remaining revolutionaries and a member of the Black Liberation Army, last week, September 25th, 2025. “Assata’s story is rare because she not only survived white ...

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 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 ...

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Upon learning that Assata Shakur, the Black revolutionary who spent the last four decades in exile in Cuba, died a free woman this week at the age of seventy-eight, many began to celebrate her legacy.

Two new projects about the late Assata Shakur are in the works. Brother-sister filmmaking duo Giselle and Stephen Bailey, who brought us HBO’s “Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television,” are ...

As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes. The law never caught up with Joanne ...

In this original poem, author Francesca Momplaisir reflects on Assata Shakur’s journey, weaving memory, resistance, and eulogy into verse. In the river Styx, the river bone, the river stone, the river ...