If someone were to ask how the memorial for Assata Shakur was, as Black people are wont to do, I’d say that in a lot of ways it was like the services for any beloved family member. Shakur’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photos: Getty Images & AP Newsroom) Recently on "The Joe Budden Podcast," Dr. Marc Lamont Hill explained why many believe Assata ...

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 ...

Assata Shakur’s life and legacy are being brought to the screen through a new documentary and scripted series from filmmakers Giselle and Stephen Bailey, just weeks after the activist and former Black ...

One year after Assata Shakur’s transition, her unyielding revolutionary love remains the blueprint for Black liberation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shakur is probably best known for her 1987 autobiography, Assata: An Autobiography, a raw and powerful account of Shakur's ...

On Saturday, May 30, hundreds gathered in the sanctuary of The Riverside Church, a historic gathering place that describes itself as “an interdenominational, interracial, international, open, ...

Most of the people who live on this planet are still not free. I ask only that you continue to work and pray to end oppression and political repression. It is my heartfelt belief that all the people ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has ...

Kash Patel criticized online tributes to Assata Shakur following her death in Havana last week, calling the praise an insult to law enforcement and the memory of slain New Jersey State Trooper Werner ...

Recently on “The Joe Budden Podcast,” Dr. Marc Lamont Hill explained why many believe Assata Shakur was framed for killing a state trooper. This week on “The Joe Budden Podcast,” Dr. Marc Lamont Hill ...