Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist previously known as JoAnne Chesimard who escaped from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died in Cuba ...

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 ...

Tupac Shakur's godmother, Assata Shakur, died at age 78 on Sept. 25. News of Assata's death was first shared by her daughter Kakuya on Facebook. "At approximately 1:15 PM on September 25th, my mother, ...

*Another link to Black activism in the ’60s and ’70s has passed away. Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army, died Thursday (09-25-25), in Havana, Cuba. She was ...

Assata Shakur’s death in Havana at 78 closes the book on a life that helped shape both Black revolutionary politics Hip-Hop. Assata Shakur died Thursday in Havana at age 78, closing the chapter on a ...

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 godmother to Tupac Shakur, has died, Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported last Friday, September 26. A cause of death was not specified beyond “health ...