Assata

JoAnne Chesimard leaves Riker’s prison in New York to await trail in the murder of state trooper Werner Foerster, Jan. 29, 1976. (Frank Hurley/NY Daily News via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, has died in […]

JoAnn Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, holding the manuscript of her autobiography with Old Havana, Cuba, in the background on October 7, 1987. (Photo by Ozier Muhammad/Newsday RM via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, has died […]