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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

(Gray News) - Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist wanted by the FBI since she escaped a U.S. prison in 1979, has died in Cuba. Shakur, who was born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, died Thursday in ...