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Assata Shakur Stood With the Oppressors

The fugitive freedom fighter allied with a government known for imprisoning dissidents, curtailing civil liberties, and forging equality in the sense that people are more equally oppressed.

Reason · Sep 29, 2025

Kash Patel slams Assata Shakur’s mourners: ‘spitting on the badge’ of cops everywhere

Assata Shakur, godmother of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, died in Cuba last week

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2025

FBI's Most Wanted Activist & Tupac's Godmother Assata Shakur Dies in Cuba

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron, Shakur was granted political asylum in Cuba after being charged with the murder of police officers in a shootout.

Latin Times · Sep 26, 2025

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Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78

Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prison

The Guardian - US · Sep 26, 2025

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 died

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2025

Sundiata Acoli: Oldest former member of the Black Panthers gets parole after nearly five decades

Sundiata Acoli, 85, was sentenced to life for the shooting death of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster

The Independent UK · May 11, 2022

Former Black Panther Sundiata Acoli to be released from prison after 49 years

The oldest imprisoned Panther was eligible for parole 29 years ago but was repeatedly denied in spite of ‘exemplary’ prison record

The Guardian - US · May 10, 2022

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Assata Shakur accomplice gets parole in trooper's 1973 death

A split New Jersey Supreme Court has granted parole to a former militant convicted in the 1973 death of a New Jersey state trooper

The Independent UK · May 10, 2022

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