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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tupac Shakur's godmother, Assata Shakur, died at age 78 on Sept. 25. News of Assata's death was first shared by her daughter Kakuya on Facebook. "At approximately 1:15 PM on September 25th, my mother, ...

*Another link to Black activism in the ’60s and ’70s has passed away. Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army, died Thursday (09-25-25), in Havana, Cuba. She was ...

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 ...

Assata Shakur (born Joanne Chesimard) the political activist, revolutionary writer, Black Panther, and member of the Black Liberation Army has passed away in Havana, Cuba at the age of 78. She ...

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 ...

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, ...