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Paul Newman
Nashville, TN Β· 3 months ago

Rest in power sister✊🏿

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Roger Sawyer
Fremont, NE Β· 3 months ago

We will all go there someday.

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Fifthofthe IveySisterstv
New York City, NY Β· 3 months ago

Rest well with the Ancestors You lived FREE and now you are FREE for Eternity May your soul fly easy Assata Shakur Ubuntu ✊🏽 ✊🏽 ✊🏽

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Fifthofthe IveySisterstv
New York City, NY Β· 3 months ago

Assata Shakur passed away yesterday in her exile, after a life spanning imprisonment, persecution and exile. For decades, she has been a prominent symbol of black resistance movements in the United States, and her case sets an example of the American state's practices in criminalizing political opponents and subjecting them to biased trials and harsh sentences. Her engagement in the fight for equal rights and social justice paid for years of arrests, violations, and deprivation, for her career to become a witness to the close relationship between authoritarianism and political repression in modern American history. All her life, Assata Shakur has lived believing that the struggle for justice is a historical duty on all who refuse to live under the yoke of systematic oppression. Though she carried the concerns of her black people, her struggle saw part of the battle of all oppressed peoples, aware that freedom is indivisible. If her career exposes the falsification of America's speech