Who Was Assata Shakur? Black Liberation Icon Dies in Cuba at 78.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Assata Shakur’s life and death cannot be separated from the politics of America’s racial divide, the Cold War, and the enduring question of what constitutes liberation versus what constitutes terrorism. Born Joanne Deborah Chesimard in New York City, Shakur emerged from the radical movements of the late 1960s and 1970s. She aligned herself with the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army, at a time when America […]