A name you hear quite often in the history of the Black panthers, but her story is too often misrepresented, is Assata Shakur. Born July 16, 1947 as Joanne Deborah Byron, then married becoming Chesimard, she was a vital instrument in the Black Panther movement and also the Black Liberation Army....

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