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 ...
A woman on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list convicted of killing a New Jersey State Police trooper more than 50 years ago has died in Cuba, where she fled after an armed prison escape. Joanne ...
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 ...
Joanne Debora Byron, also known as Joanne Chesimard and Assata Shakur, died in Havana at 78 after decades on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list. She was convicted in the 1973 killing of New Jersey ...