Assata Shakur, Black Liberationist and Tupac's Godmother, Dead at 78

Assata Shakur, the Black Liberationist convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, who was also Tupac Shakur’s godmother , has died, The New York Times reports. She was 78.

Health officials in Cuba — where Shakur had lived since 1984 after escaping prison and being granted political asylum — confirmed her death. An exact cause wasn’t given, but they said she died from health complications and advanced age.

Shakur — born Joanne Chesimard — was the first woman to be added to the FBI’s Most-Wanted list , and its second domestic terrorist, because of her escape from prison and alleged role in the murder of 34-year-old state trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. But Shakur and her supporters have long maintained her innocence in the shooting, arguing that the evidence and testimony us