A Notable Death In Havana!!
At age 78 Joanne Deborah Shakur has died in Havana. She is also known as Assata Shakur, the famed godmother/grandmother of the late entertainer Tupac Shakur. But Joanne's everlasting fame came when her black liberation name Assata made headlines on May 2nd in 1973 on a highway in New Jersey. That day she and other black liberation activists got in a shootout with New Jersey state troopers. Trooper Werner Foerster was killed. Assata was arrested. She was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. But she escaped in November of 1979 and was put on the top of the FBI's Most Wanted List. In 1984 she emerged in Cuba where Fidel Castro, saying she was unfairly charged and treated in the U. S., gave her asylum. Despite massive monetary rewards and other means failed to dislodge her from Cuba, and mostly known by her real name of Joanne Deborah Shakur, she remained in Cuba until she died at age 78, with her daughter Kakuya Shakur confirming the death on Facebook.
Her death in Havana ends a famous life.
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