(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 revolutionary, died in Havana, Cuba, on Thursday, September 25. She was widely known for becoming the first woman to be named in the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists, as per ...

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 ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist previously known as JoAnne Chesimard who escaped from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died in Cuba ...

Everyone occupies their time differently on planes. There are the snackers, the readers, the sleepers, the armrest hoggers, the chatters, the movie-watchers, and the business-types who email and such ...

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 ...