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Assata
by Punk and Pedagogy
Black Panther. Political prisoner. Escaped to Cuba. Her own words.
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Assata Shakur was a Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member who was convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper in a trial her supporters called a political prosecution. She escaped from prison in 1979 and has lived in Cuba ever since, where the US government has placed a $2 million bounty on her head. This autobiography — written in Cuba — moves between her childhood, her radicalization, her years in the movement, her trial, and her imprisonment. The most important Black radical autobiography since the Autobiography of Malcolm X. A dispatch from inside the experience of someone the American state decided was an enemy and pursued accordingly.
