Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a state trooper ...

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

Political activist Assata Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army, died on September 25 at the age of 78. According to ...

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

Assata Shakur, an activist with the Black Liberation Army exiled in Cuba for four decades, has died in Havana, aged 78.

JoAnne Deborah Byron, better known as ‘Assata Shakur,’ was born on July 16, 1947, in Queens, New York, The Guardian reported.