Shortly after arriving in Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly ...

Speaking on VladTV, Velez, who previously wrote about her music industry experiences in the book When Silence Screamed: The Girl Who Knew Too Much, said that the incident in question occurred during a ...

Assata Shakur, a political activist and the godmother of pioneering rapper Tupac Shakur, died Sept ... Shakur maintains that she did not open fire and was shot while her hands were above her head. In ...