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Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army figure and activist, dies at 78

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Black liberation activist and American fugitive Assata Shakur, who escaped to Cuba more than 45 years ago after she was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, died in Havana, the government announced Friday.



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