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The Chicago Teachers Union is facing backlash over a social media post mourning the death of Assata Shakur, a convicted killer who fled to Cuba.

Cuban authorities have announced the death of Assata Shakur, the U.S. Black militant who lived in exile for decades after escaping from prison, where she had been serving a life sentence for the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. Shakur…

She was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a Black nationalist militant organisation that largely operated in the United States in the 1970s.

On Friday, Cuban officials announced that Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Havana decades after breaking out of prison and escaping to the communist island. Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign…

Assata Shakur, birth name JoAnne Deborah Byron, a former domestic terrorist who escaped from a New Jersey prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba where she was granted asylum, has died at the age of 78.

Convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper, she escaped prison and fled the country. She called herself “a 20th-century escaped slave.”

Personal essay by Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after arriving to 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…

Shakur’s case had long been a thorny issue in the fraught relations between the U.S. and Cuba.

She fled to Cuba after being convicted in the killing of a police officer but denied the shooting.

Premiering on Friday, this new documentary tells the story of Omara Portuondo, the legendary Afro-Cuban chanteuse who rose to international fame with the Buena Vista Social Club.

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a US prison where she'd been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died at the age of 78. She was also the…

The fugitive revolutionary spent decades in exile after escaping from a US jail in 1979.

A member of a Black militant group, she was found guilty in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, escaped from prison and fled to Cuba, where she taught and wrote.

A woman convicted of murdering a New Jersey State Trooper more than 50 years ago has died in Cuba, officials announced.

The Cuban government has announced that exiled activist Assata Shakur died in Havana on Thursday at 78. She was an activist within the Black Liberation Army.

Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prison

Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was convicted of murdering a state trooper in 1973 and escaped prison in 1979.