Assata Shakur, a political activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army who escaped from a New Jersey prison in 1979 and later received political asylum in Cuba, has died. She was 78. The news was first announced in a press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and confirmed shortly after by [...]

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