#AssataShakur, a #BlackLiberation #activist who was given political asylum in #Cuba after her 1979 escape from a #US prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter & the Cuban govt said.
Shakur, born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, died Thursday in Havana due to “health conditions & advanced age,” Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Shakur’s daughter, Kakuya Shakur, also confirmed her mother’s death in a FB post.
