Assata Shakur, Iconic US Fugitive and Black Liberation Activist, Dies in Cuba
Assata Shakur, Iconic US Fugitive and Black Liberation Activist, Dies in Cuba Assata Shakur, the prominent Black liberation activist who has been a fugitive from U.S. justice since her 1979 escape from prison, has died in Cuba. Her daughter and the Cuban government confirmed her passing. Shakur, 78, died Thursday in Havana due to “health conditions and advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, Shakur was serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder…