She was known by two names that convey two very different identities. One depicted her as a revolutionary heroine, an innocent target of police repression. The other was the name of a merciless ...

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 ...

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 ...

She was known by two names that convey two very different identities. One depicted her as a revolutionary heroine, an innocent target of police repression. The other was the name of a merciless ...

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 ...

Sentenced to life in prison in connection with the May 1973 killing of white police officer Werner Foerster, political activist Assata Shakur escaped to Cuba in 1979, where she was granted political ...

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, ...

As President Donald Trump and his administration take on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes. The law never ...

Several Chicago alderpeople on Monday denounced the Chicago Teachers Union for a social media post honoring Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur. Shakur died last week at the age of 78. To some, ...

There are quite a few dramatic, almost folkloric, stories about Assata Shakur, the American militant and self-avowed anti-government revolutionary who escaped from prison in 1979, not long after she ...

Assata Shakur, the Black revolutionary and godmother to Tupac Shakur, has died, Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported last Friday, September 26. A cause of death was not specified beyond “health ...

Black America, we need to get clear on something real quick. If you go on TikTok or any social media platform, there is a great deal of confusion on a particular issue. Don’t worry, this won’t take ...