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Ocupação. Militante. Escritora. Poetisa. Assata Olugbala Shakur (nascida Joanne Deborah Byron; Nova York, 16 de julho de 1947) [ 1] é uma escritora, poetisa e militante estadunidense, ex-membro do Partido dos Panteras Negras (BPP) e do grupo paramilitar Exército de Libertação Negra (BLA).
- Joanne Deborah Byron
Convicted of murder, one of the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists", friend of Afeni Shakur and Mutulu Shakur and often described as their son Tupac Shakur's "godmother" or "step-aunt" Criminal status Escaped/At large
1 de mai. de 2023 · Assata Shakur is a former Black Panther member who escaped from prison and became a political refugee in Cuba. She is the godmother of late rapper Tupac Shakur, who praised her as a genius and a revolutionary.
- Joanne Byron’s Journey to Activism
- Becoming Assata Shakur
- The New Jersey Turnpike Case
- A Legal Battle and Daring Escape to Cuba
The New York of Assata Shakur’s childhood was a harsh place for Black girls. Race riots and white flight killed the economic and social boom known as the Harlem Renaissance, and an economic depression had settled over the Black communities in every borough of the city. Born on July 16, 1947, Shakur’s parents divorcedwhen she was young, and she spen...
Shakur enthusiastically helped open Black Panthers operations on the East Coast and volunteered to run their famous free breakfast program in New York. But according to her autobiography, she believed the Panthers were well-intentioned but terribly ignorant about American history. They knew, she claimed, a lot about socialism and radical politics, ...
Shortly before 1 a.m. on the morning of May 2, 1973, two full years into the BLA’s crime spree, New Jersey State Trooper James Harper stopped a speeding car with a broken tail light on the New Jersey Turnpike. During the stop, he asked the male driver of the vehicle to step out and, according to the later testimony of another officer who arrived as...
Throughout the nine-week trial, the courthouse was secured by a ring of deputies, who were themselves surrounded by “civil rights activists,” many of them armed and in attendance to protest each day. Ultimately, the jury found Shakur guilty as charged on both murder counts and all six assault charges. On hearing the verdict, Shakur called the jury ...
8 de fev. de 2014 · Learn about Assata Shakur, a political activist who joined the Black Liberation Army and was convicted of murder in 1977. She escaped from prison and fled to Cuba, where she was granted asylum and became Tupac Shakur's step-aunt.
15 de jan. de 2024 · O histórico de luta de Assata é uma prova da capacidade de mobilização e liderança das mulheres negras nos momentos de acirramento das lutas sociais: madrinha de Tupac Shakur, foi decisiva para a politização da cena do Hip Hop da costa Oeste, atuou em uma experiência decisiva da luta antirracista internacional e é um exemplo ...
23 de set. de 2022 · Análise. Livros. Assata Shakur narra em biografia a revolução que irrompe da vida negra. Livro passa pela infância e juventude da ativista para então chegar à sua prisão em 1973, após um tiroteio com policiais. Assinantes podem liberar 7 acessos por dia para conteúdos da Folha. Carregando...
