Assata Shakur
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 16, 1947
- Place of birth
- Queens, New York, USA
Biography
Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted, under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute, of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. On November 2, 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.
Movies with Assata Shakur
- 13th 2016 · ★ 7.8
- Eyes of the Rainbow 1997 · ★ 7.8
- Assata aka Joanne Chesimard 2008
- Fred Baker - filmmaker 2007