Family members and admirers of Assata Shakur plan to gather at Riverside Church on May 30 for a public celebration of her ...

Tupac Shakur's godmother, Assata Shakur, died at age 78 on Sept. 25. News of Assata's death was first shared by her daughter Kakuya on Facebook. "At approximately 1:15 PM on September 25th, my mother, ...

Here in New York, family and friends gathered at Riverside Church on Saturday for a memorial service celebrating the life of Assata Shakur, the legendary Black Panther and Black liberation activist ...

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 ...

We lost Assata Shakur, one of our remaining revolutionaries and a member of the Black Liberation Army, last week, September 25th, 2025. “Assata’s story is rare because she not only survived white ...

This week on “The Joe Budden Podcast,” Dr. Marc Lamont Hill gave listeners a history lesson in honor of Assata Shakur’s passing last week. While paying his respects to the late political activist, ...

In this original poem, author Francesca Momplaisir reflects on Assata Shakur’s journey, weaving memory, resistance, and eulogy into verse. In the river Styx, the river bone, the river stone, the river ...

Joanne Deborah Chesimard, better known as Assata Shakur, started trending on X after unfounded claims of her demise emerged on social media. The rumors stemmed from an Instagram post by Andy Shallal ( ...