Assata Shakur, a Black activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said. Shakur, who was born 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 ...

Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted of murdering a state trooper in 1973 and lived in Cuba for decades, has died, authorities said Friday. Shakur, also known as Joanne ...

Havana (CNN) — Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member and fugitive with a $2 million FBI reward on her head, died in Havana where she had received political asylum from Fidel Castro, the ...

(CNN) — Shortly after arriving to 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 ...

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, the godmother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur and a convicted cop killer on the FBI’s most wanted list, has died in Cuba, where she was granted asylum. She was 78. A member of the Black ...