Scars on her chest, abdomen, left shoulder and left knee. Sex: female. Citizenship: American. Race: Black. Name: Joanne Deborah Chesimard. Alias: Assata Shakur, former member of the Black Panther ...

Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted, under New Jersey's ...

An international coalition of grassroots organizers and elected officials have launched a campaign demanding that the U.S. government lifts its embargo on Cuba and takes Assata Shakur off the FBI’s ...

But to others, she’s Assata Shakur, a folk hero of the civil rights movement. “In so many of the different organizations of Black Lives Matter, they start their meetings with a poem from ...

These realities shaped Byron’s life, who came to be known as Assata Shakur, and were the impetus for her social activism — and eventually landed her on the FBI’s Most Wanted list as a domestic ...

Now known as Assata Shakur, she was given asylum in Cuba by then-President Fidel Castro and remains a fugitive. In a tweet Tuesday, Patrick Colligan, head of the New Jersey State Policemen’s ...

Assata Shakur liberated herself from prison three months after the first commemoration of Black August in 1979. Black August originated in San Quentin Correctional Facility to show solidarity with ...

West Coast hip-hop feud. He rose to fame after another Shakur — Assata — became a wanted fugitive and sought asylum in Cuba. Tupac’s music was known for addressing many of the issues that ...

FILE - This is an undated file photo provided by the New Jersey State Police showing Assata Shakur - the former JoAnne Chesimard - who was put on a U.S. government terrorist watch list on May 2, 2005.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors repeatedly praised FBI most wanted terrorist Assata Shakur in posts on social media. Shakur, also known as JoAnne Chesimard, was convicted of being ...

The BLM at School’s home page centers on one inspirational quote — from Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther who in 1979 fled prison, where she was serving life for the execution-style ...