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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kash Patel condemned tributes to Assata Shakur after her death in Cuba calling them a disgrace to officers killed in the line of duty. Kash Patel criticized online tributes to Assata Shakur following ...

Assata Shakur, fugitive Black activist who escaped life sentence for killing police officer has passed away in Cuba. Photo courtesy of Frank Hurley/ NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images On Thursday, ...

Upon learning that Assata Shakur, the Black revolutionary who spent the last four decades in exile in Cuba, died a free woman this week at the age of seventy-eight, many began to celebrate her legacy.

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 ...

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review and a columnist for The Spectator and Creators Syndicate. As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947, in Queens, New York, raised partly in the South and back in New York by her teens, she dropped out of high school at 17, drifting through odd jobs and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She was known by two names that convey two very different identities. One depicted her as a revolutionary heroine, an innocent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Assata Shakur on NBC News in 1998 (Screenshot: NBC News/YouTube) Brother-sister filmmakers Giselle and Stephen Bailey, known for ...