The controversial Black liberation activist formerly known as Joanne Deborah Chesimard fled to Cuba after escaping a New ...

In her telling, and in the minds of her supporters, she was pursued for crimes she didn't commit or that were justified. The ...

Joanne Debora Byron, a member of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted in the killing of New Jersey State Police Trooper ...

Assata Shakur, a political activist known as Joanne Chesimard, convicted of killing a NJ state trooper in 1977, died in Cuba at 78.

The news was originally shared on Facebook by Assata's daughter before being confirmed by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign ...

Byron was known as Joanne Chesimard when a gun battle broke out during traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in Middlesex County in 1973. She broke out of a New Jersey prison in 1979 and escaped to ...

Assata Shakur, who made national headlines in the 1970s when she was convicted of killing a state trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike, died in Cuba.

Cuban officials said Joanne Chesimard, who escaped prison in 1979 after being convicted of murdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, has died.

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 ...