Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant wanted since 1979 in NJ trooper’s murder, dies in Cuba Associated Press Published: September 26, 2025 Werner Foerster, Joanne Chesimard, Fidel Castro (Castro photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

🚔 Assata Shakur, convicted in the 1973 killing of NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster, has died in Cuba after decades in exile.

🌎 Shakur escaped prison in 1979 and lived under asylum granted by Fidel Castro, becoming a symbol of global revolutionary movements.

🎶 Both celebrated and condemned, she inspired Black Lives Matter and hip-hop artists, while critics saw her as a dangerous fugitive.

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentenc

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