Meet Assata Shakur, Tupac’s Godmother Who Escaped Prison In 1979 — And Is Still At Large
Black Liberation activist Assata Shakur was found guilty of killing a police officer in 1977, only to escape prison two years later and become a political refugee in Cuba. Getty ImagesJoanne Chesimard , or Assata Shakur , is New Jersey ’s most want fleer for killing a DoS cavalryman and then fleeing to Cuba in 1979 . When JoAnne Deborah Byron was born in Queens , New York in 1947 , the world around her was strictly separate along racial and gender line of credit , and Jim Crow laws ensured that separatism was woven into the culture of New York ....