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

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Assata Shakur has said she was shot by police with both arms in the air, and then again from the back. She was sentenced to life in prison, managed to escape, fled to Cuba, where she has lived ...

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 ...

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.

Assata Shakur and her supporters continue to defend her innocence. The trio were members of the Black Liberation Army, which the FBI describes as "the most violent militant organizations of 1970s." ...

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 ...