Assata Shakur, the freedom-fighting member of the Black Liberation Army and author of Assata: An Autobiography, stands as a powerful and iconic symbol of resistance and survival. Shakur died at the ...

We lost Assata Shakur, one of our remaining revolutionaries and a member of the Black Liberation Army, last week, September 25th, 2025. “Assata’s story is rare because she not only survived white ...

After spending 46 years as one of America's longest-standing fugitives, political and liberation activist Assata Shakur, born Joanne Chesimard, is dead. News broke in the early morning of Sept. 26 ...

In this original poem, author Francesca Momplaisir reflects on Assata Shakur’s journey, weaving memory, resistance, and eulogy into verse. In the river Styx, the river bone, the river stone, the river ...

Socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani tapped a radical who idolizes cop-killer Assata Shakur to advise his administration on public schools, The Post has learned. Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari — the ...

Two new projects about the late Assata Shakur are in the works. Brother-sister filmmaking duo Giselle and Stephen Bailey, who brought us HBO’s “Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television,” are ...

Shortly after arriving in 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 clearly ...

Assata, who was 78, died in Cuba, where she received political asylum from Fidel Castro after fleeing the United States following a conviction for taking part in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state ...

The prominent political activist Assata Shakur has died, and tributes have begun to pour in on social media in response honoring her revolutionary spirit. On Friday morning (September 26), news went ...

Assata Shakur’s story will be told in a new documentary by Giselle and Stephen Bailey, with Angela Davis serving as producer. Assata Shakur’s life and legacy are being brought to the screen through a ...