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On this day, 16 July 1947, African-American revolutionary Assata Shakur was born in Jamaica, Queens, NY. After graduating from college she briefly joined the Black Panther Party, followed by the urban guerrilla group the Black Liberation Army which was engaging in armed struggle against the government, robbing banks and killing drug dealers and police officers. In 1973 Shakur was wounded in a shootout with police, arrested and later jailed for the alleged killing of a police officer. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was granted asylum in Cuba, where she lives to this day. Assata was also the step-aunt and godmother to murdered hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.
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