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The Latest Breaking News from Assata Shakur

The fugitive freedom fighter allied with a government known for imprisoning dissidents, curtailing civil liberties, and forging equality in the sense that people are more equally oppressed.

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Kash Patel slams Assata Shakur’s mourners: ‘spitting on the badge’ of cops everywhere

Assata Shakur, godmother of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, died in Cuba last week

The Independent UK

Assata Shakur Dies in Exile at 78 — Inside Her Real Connection to Tupac and the Crime That Put Her on the FBI's Most Wanted List

Assata Shakur dies at 78 in Cuba. Explore her real connection to Tupac Shakur and the 1973 case that placed her on the FBI's Most Wanted list.

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FBI's Most Wanted Activist & Tupac's Godmother Assata Shakur Dies in Cuba

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron, Shakur was granted political asylum in Cuba after being charged with the murder of police officers in a shootout.

Latin Times

Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78

Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prison

The Guardian - US

Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant sought by the US since 1979, dies in Cuba

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died

The Independent UK

Rosalynn Carter made a wrongfully convicted felon a White House nanny and helped win her pardon

Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia

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The most bizarre conspiracy theories surrounding Tupac Shakur’s murder

Wild stories continue to circulate about the gangsta rapper, who was gunned down in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. Joe Sommerlad reports

The Independent UK

The most bizarre conspiracy theories surrounding Tupac Shakur’s murder

Wild stories continue to circulate about the gangsta rapper, who was gunned down in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. Joe Sommerlad reports

The Independent UK

The most bizarre conspiracy theories surrounding Tupac Shakur’s murder

Wild stories continue to circulate about the gangsta rapper, who was gunned down in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. Joe Sommerlad reports

The Independent UK

World's most infamous fugitives on the run for YEARS just like Mafia boss Messina Denaro

Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested in Sicily on Monday after 30 years on the run. The mafia boss is not the only notorious criminal who managed to evade authorities for decades

Daily Mirror

Mutulu Shakur, planner of 1981 Brink’s robbery and Tupac Shakur’s stepfather, paroled from prison for health reasons

NEW YORK — A radical group leader who planned the 1981 Brink’s robbery that left two Nyack, New York, police officers and an armored car guard dead has been released from prison after 37 years, according to a report.

Tribune News Service

Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature

When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t read books, some people questioned whether he was sending the wrong message to children.

The Conversation

Time to remove Cuba from terror list

Pointless sanctions based on an outmoded list are creating immense hardship for the Cuban people. Time to move on

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Former Black Panther Sundiata Acoli to be released from prison after 49 years

The oldest imprisoned Panther was eligible for parole 29 years ago but was repeatedly denied in spite of ‘exemplary’ prison record

The Independent UK

Assata Shakur accomplice gets parole in trooper's 1973 death

A split New Jersey Supreme Court has granted parole to a former militant convicted in the 1973 death of a New Jersey state trooper

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