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Assata Shakur

American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army

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born
1947
died
2025
age at death
78
known for
political activist, poet, editing staff

1947 – 2025

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Assata Olugbala Shakur was a Black American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.

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