Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said.

What You Need To Know • Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died • The Cuban government said Friday that Shakur died Thursday in Havana due to "health conditions and advanced age" • Shakur's case had long been a thorny issue in the fraught relations between the U.S. and Cuba • Shakur was convicted in the 1973 death of Trooper Werner Foerster during a gunfight after a traffic

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