A recent report by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has drawn sharp attention to the country’s fragile civil ...

Assata Shakur recently passed away from “health concerns and advanced age,” according to a statement from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shakur was 78. But, with Assata’s name now in headlines, ...

Also known as Joanne Chesimard, she was convicted for murdering a trooper. Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, has died in ...

In 2005, Jorge Mas Santos, chairman of the board for the Cuban American Foundation, listens to Albio Sires, New Jersey state assembly speaker of the House, holds a reward pamphlet for Assata Shakur, ...

Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Cuba, where she had fled to after escaping from prison, Cuban officials ...

Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted of murdering a state trooper in 1973 and lived in Cuba for decades, has died, authorities said Friday. Shakur, also known as Joanne ...

HAVANA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Assata Shakur, the former Black Liberation Army activist who became a civil rights icon for some and a wanted murderer for others after her conviction in the killing of a ...

The activist was granted political asylum in Cuba after escaping from a New Jersey prison in 1979. Assata Shakur, the famed political activist and former Black Liberation Army member who escaped ...

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 sentence for killing a police officer, has ...

Six of the signatories to the truce have since taken up arms against the junta, while three of the four that still abide by it have no army to speak of: here the Irrawaddy traces the NCA’s sorry ...