Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assata Shakur, the godmother of late rapper Tupac Shakur, a former Black Panther and convicted cop killer who escaped U.S. custody ...

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 ...

Shortly after arriving in Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly ...

*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 ...

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 ...

JMK AWARD Winner Kalungi Ssebandeke, is set to direct and co-producer the revival of his 2017 play ‘Assata Taught Me’.

Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, a political and human rights activist, has died at the age of 78, according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cuban authorities said the former ...

A documentary and scripted project on the late political activist Assata Shakur are in development, with Angela Davis serving as executive producer. Following the recent passing of Assata Shakur, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assata Shakur’s story will be told in a new documentary by Giselle and Stephen Bailey, with Angela Davis serving as producer. Assata Shakur’s life and legacy are being brought to the screen through a ...