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Assata Shakur, the world’s most famous Black fugitive revolutionary, passed away this past week in Cuba. Shakur, perhaps more than even the Black Panthers, was through her life able to keep the collective Black imagination alive and hopeful for the future, even under increasingly oppressive conditions. Her death in Cuba as a free woman stands testament to the fact that with a little grit and determination, and a whole lot of solidarity, we all might be able to outwit the system that is out to crush us.
Even so, it was not all roses with the life of Assata, and her struggles several decades ago speak to current struggles globally. Like so many today, Assata was branded a terrorist and most wanted fugitive for daring to defend herself, and later on daring to escape the shackles of oppression. By allegedly shooting a State trooper, after a series of bank robberies, Shakur became an enemy of the State, even though multiple trials would find her not guilty of the crimes she was accused of.
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