Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted of murdering a state trooper in 1973 and lived in Cuba for decades, has died, authorities said Friday.

Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, died in Havana "due to health conditions and advanced age" on Thursday, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a news release .

She was born JoAnne Deborah Byron in Queens, New York, in July 1947, BET News reported . In 1967, she married Louis Chesimard. The pair divorced in 1970.

A mug shot of Joanne Chesimard. Bettmann

Shakur was attached to Black nationalist movements, including the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, which called for armed resistance against systemic racism and planned assassinations of law enforcement members in multiple U.S. ci

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