ASSATA SHAKUR: I later joined the Black Panther Party, an organization that was targeted by the COINTELPRO program, a program that was set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to eliminate ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. One of the central figures in the history of the Black Panther Party is Kathleen Cleaver, the first communications secretary for the organization ...

Former Black Panther Assata Shakur may be adversely affected by the recent death of Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro. Shakur explains in her own words what happened and why she currently has ...

The former member of the Black Panthers, accused 52 years ago of the murder of a police officer and given refuge by Fidel Castro, is now 77 years old, living in Havana, and considers herself a former ...

He rose to fame after another Shakur — Assata — became a wanted fugitive ... his mother Afeni Shakur was an active member of the Black Panther Party in New York in the late 1960s and early ...

Assata Shakur was shot twice and seriously wounded ... and soon got involved in the Black Panther Party when a chapter first opened in 1968. But law enforcement agencies targeted the Panthers ...

leaders of the Black Panther Party in Harlem; and revolutionary activists Assata Shakur and Afeni Shakur (the mother of the famous rapper Tupac Shakur). An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the ...

Assata Shakur, played a pivotal role in shaping ... Born JoAnne Deborah Byron, Shakur was involved in the Black Panther Party and later the Black Liberation Army. Her activism was not only about ...

Assata Shakur (born Joanne Deborah Byron ... by Shakur and Eldridge Cleaver. As the Black Panther party began to decline in the ’70s, BLA gained strength; — continuing the mission ...

The officers specifically objected to the letter R, which featured a black panther, and the letter E, which had an illustration of Assata Shakur and the words “WE MUST LOVE EACH OTHER AND ...

AN AMERIKAN FAMILY: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created, by Santi Elijah Holley In 1994, Tupac Shakur gave ... factions of the Black liberation struggle. The Black Panther Party stepped ...