(Gray News) - Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist wanted by the FBI since she escaped a U.S. prison in 1979, has died in Cuba.

Shakur, who was born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, died Thursday in Havana from “health conditions and advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Associated Press reported her daughter, Kakuya Shakur, also confirmed her death.

She was 78 years old.

Shakur was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, as well as the godmother and step-aunt of Tupac Shakur.

In 2013, the FBI made her the first woman on its list of “most wanted terrorists” and placed a $2 million bounty on her head, CNN reported.

She was on the run from the FBI since escaping from a prison in November 1979, where she was serving a life senten

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