Lefty groups that paid tribute to Assata Shakur — the fugitive Black Liberation activist who recently died after escaping a life sentence for the murder of a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 — faced ...

Joanne Chesimard, a fugitive from justice for more than 45 years after escaping a life prison term in New Jersey for the murder of a state trooper, died in exile in Cuba on Sept. 25, the Ministry of ...

The Chicago Teacher’s Union is catching heat for a social media post that reverently remembered the legacy of Joanne Chesimard, who died in Cuba on Friday and was convicted of killing a New Jersey ...

A grand jury decided not to file criminal charges against members of the New Jersey State Police following the investigation of the death of a Pennsylvania man while in police custody, Attorney ...

Joanne Debora Byron, also known as Joanne Chesimard and Assata Shakur, died in Havana at 78 after decades on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list. She was convicted in the 1973 killing of New Jersey ...

Assata Shakur, who made national headlines in the 1970s when she was convicted of killing a state trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike, died in Cuba on Sept. 26. She was 78. Shakur, whose legal name was ...

A woman on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list convicted of killing a New Jersey State Police trooper more than 50 years ago has died in Cuba, where she fled after an armed prison escape. Joanne ...

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 ...