Kate Sosin

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Assata Shakur, one of the most consequential Black political revolutionaries and writers of her time and enemy of the U.S. government until her last breath, died September 25.

Shakur was 78 and living in exile in Havana, Cuba. She died of “health conditions and advanced age,” according to a statement from Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shakur had the distinction of being the first woman to ever make the FBI’s most wanted list. She was also rap legend Tupac Shakur’s godmother.

While the FBI offered up to $1 million for her capture, her supporters celebrated her as a feminist and anti-racist visionary.

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Shakur was born Joanne Deborah Chesimard in 1947 in F

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