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One Good Read: Books by Black Authors
Who: Frances Dinkelspiel, author and freelance reporter Recommendation: “All the Sinners Bleed” by S.A. Cosby Why it’s a good ...
On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of ...
In the weeks since a photo of a malformed Imam Jamil Al-Amin surfaced online, family, comrades and all those in between have ...
Fifty years ago today, the Puerto Rican separatist group, the FALN, bombed Manhattan's historic Fraunces Tavern, but no one ...
Long-grieving families who lost loved ones in the 1975 bombing of Manhattan’s Fraunces Tavern called on the new Trump ...
NYPD officers stood at the perimeter of the park throughout the teach-in. At the teach-in, organizers drew on quotes from scholars and activists including Huey Newton, Assata Shakur, and Stokely ...
A bill in Congress named for Joe's father and New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, who was killed by Black Liberation Army militant Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, who also is on the lam ...
where leftist students at City College in 1990 named a campus room the Morales/Shakur Center — after Morales and Chesimard’s adopted moniker Assata Shakur. The college finally closed the stude ...
The same is true of other Black thikers. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur are but two Black nationalists who were wronged by the government and never got the treatment they deserve. Pardoning ...
Author Assata Shakur and rapper Tupac are well-known, but Holley introduces other family members who have also been deeply involved in the fight for racial justice. — Brooke Blizzard “Life on ...
For example, the case of Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur – a Black Liberation Army activist who killed a New Jersey state trooper and fled to Cuba in 1984 after escaping prison.
The six officers took issue with two specific images in the mural: a picture of Assata Shakur, a civil rights activists who became a fugitive after being convicted for shooting a state trooper ...