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 ...

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, 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 (formerly known as Joanne Chesimard), the Black Liberation Army member who killed a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 and escaped from prison in 1979, has been placed on the FBI’s Most ...

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 ...