The Black Liberation Army member, who escaped to Cuba in the 1980s, was name-checked in songs by Public Enemy and Common ...

Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was convicted of murdering a state trooper in 1973 and escaped prison in 1979.

Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, fled to Cuba after her conviction of the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner ...

Patrick Oppmann was a 21-year-old college student doing a stint with CNN’s Havana bureau when he tasked himself with finding ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison, ...

Assata Shakur, the former Black Liberation Army activist who became a civil rights icon for some and a wanted murderer for ...

She fled to Cuba after being convicted in the killing of a police officer but she denied shooting the officer.

Shakur, U.S. citizen and fugitive born Joanne Deborah Byron, died Thursday from "health problems and advanced age," the Cuban ...

Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member militant and fugitive with a $2 million FBI reward on her head, died in Havana where she had received political asylum from Fidel Castro, the Cuban ...

Shakur, U.S. citizen and fugitive born Joanne Deborah Byron, died Thursday from "health problems and advanced age," the Cuban ...

Cuban officials said Joanne Chesimard, who escaped prison in 1979 after being convicted of murdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, has died.

You could look in her eyes and feel her dedication to the liberation of Black people in the US, her passion for righteousness ...