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 ...
JoAnn Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, holding the manuscript of her autobiography with Old Havana, Cuba, in the background on . (Photo by Ozier Muhammad/Newsday RM via Getty Images) (NEW ...
In These Times: Assata Shakur’s Autobiography is the Road Map to Freedom We Still Need
Assata Shakur’s Autobiography is the Road Map to Freedom We Still Need
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 ...
Yahoo: Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
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 ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant sought by the US since 1979, dies in Cuba
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 fugitive Black militant sought by the US since 1979, dies in Cuba
After spending 46 years as one of America's longest-standing fugitives, political and liberation activist Assata Shakur, born Joanne Chesimard, is dead. News broke in the early morning of Sept. 26 ...