Assata Shakur, a revolutionary activist who rose to prominence after being convicted of the murder of a New Jersey state ...

Doctors testified Shakur's bullet wounds were likely consistent with her hands being ... Shakur, who regarded herself as the godmother of rapper Tupac Shakur, adopted her new name in 1971, forsaking ...

Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced her death, citing she passed due to "health conditions and advanced age." Once known as JoAnne Chesimard, Shakur was born in Queens to Carl Byron, who was ...

Assata Shakur, the revolutionary whose name has become a rallying cry for freedom fighters across generations, has passed away at 78. MadameNoire can confirm that Assata Shakur, the revolutionary ...

"At approximately 1:15 PM on September 25th, my mother, Assata Shakur, took her last earthly breath ... Assata also sustained a gunshot wound in her left shoulder as well as underneath her right arm.

Assata Shakur, the Black Liberationist convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, who was also Tupac Shakur’s godmother, has died, The New York Times reports. She was 78. Health officials in ...

Assata Shakur, a political activist and the godmother of pioneering rapper Tupac Shakur, died Sept. 25. She was 78. Her death was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba, where she had ...

There are quite a few dramatic, almost folkloric, stories about Assata Shakur, the American militant and self-avowed anti-government revolutionary who escaped from prison in 1979, not long after she ...