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Assata Shakur, Cuba and New Jersey

After Assata Shakur’s death in Cuba, looking back at her conviction in a New Jersey police killing

Assata Shakur, a controversial Black liberation activist who fled to Cuba after escaping a New Jersey prison following a 1977 conviction in the murder of a state trooper, died this week in Havana.

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Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army member convicted of killing a state trooper, dies at 78

Assata Shakur, fugitive killer of New Jersey trooper in 1973, dies in Cuba at 78

Assata Shakur, black liberation activist exiled in Cuba, dies at 78

Shakur maintained her innocence and reappeared in Cuba in 1984 where she was granted asylum by former president Fidel Castro.

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Assata Shakur, convicted of murdering an NJ state trooper, dies in Cuba

Assata Shakur, A Fugitive Black Militant Sought By The U.S. Since 1979, Dies In Cuba