Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shakur is probably best known for her 1987 autobiography, Assata: An Autobiography, a raw and powerful account of Shakur’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 to an accountant father and schoolteacher mother, Shakur spent her childhood between Queens, New ...

A documentary and scripted project on the late political activist Assata Shakur are in development, with Angela Davis serving as executive producer. Following the recent passing of Assata Shakur, ...

There are quite a few dramatic, almost folkloric, stories about Assata Shakur, the American militant and self-avowed anti-government revolutionary who escaped from prison in 1979, not long after she ...

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 ...

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 Shakur, the Black revolutionary and freedom fighter who found political asylum in socialist Cuba, passed away on September 25. Her life and struggle continue to inspire generations of young ...

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 ...