The name of Assata Shakur, a woman convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper, has been used by Black Lives Matter to illustrate what the group called Cuba’s "solidarity with ...

New Jersey targets Assata Shakur while staggering racial wealth gaps, failing schools, and crumbling infrastructure demand ...

Joanne Chesimard, who changed her name to Assata Shakur, a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J., April 25, 1977.

Last week, Assata Shakur was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Terrorists List. But that move might say less about Shakur’s alleged crimes than about President Barack Obama and his willingness ...

In 1973, while driving on the NJ Turnpike, police pulled Assata, Zayd Shakur and Sundiata Acoli over for a faulty taillight. Shortly after being pulled over, a shootout claimed the lives of Zayd ...

In the video, Assata Shakur’s voice is high-pitched and soft, out of sync with the fact that she is a notorious fugitive convicted of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper.

Assata Shakur, BLA member Sundiata Acoli and state trooper James Harpur survived the incident on the New Jersey Turnpike. Acoli, also known as Clark Edward Squire, was sentenced to life in prison ...

Shakur was born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, in Jamaica, Queens. She changed her name to Assata Shakur in 1971. “The name JoAnne began to irk my nerves,” she writes in her autobiography.

So while Assata Shakur — who calls herself a “20th century escaped slave” — may at first seem a surprising entry as the first female on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list, ...

Assata Shakur's 1998 open letter is eerily relevant today. When President Obama announced a resumption in relations between the America and Cuba for the first time in over 50 years ...

Assata Shakur was the de facto leader of the Black Liberation Army in the early 1970s. Throughout the 1970s, she was indicted nearly a dozen times for several violent incidents, including murder.

JetBlue was forced to apologize Thursday after honoring convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur as part of Black History Month at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.