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Shakur's only daughter, Kakuya Shakur, was conceived during her trial and born on September 11, 1974, in the "fortified psychiatric ward" at Elmhurst General Hospital in Queens, where Shakur stayed for a few days before being returned to Rikers Island.
Apr 9, 2021 · Assata Shakur and Kamau Sadiki, both accused of murder, sat trapped in a defendant’s room – and had a decision to make. They wanted to be together, but what if they had a child? Assata wanted to be a mom, and to love Kamau. But Black people still weren’t free. Why would she want to bring life into a world like that?
Mar 1, 2022 · by Kassidy Tarala. March 1, 2022. 10:12 AM. Expand. Assata Shakur, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted in 1977 for the murder of a state trooper during a shootout in New Jersey. In 1979, she escaped from prison and made her way to Cuba, where she was granted political asylum and continues to live today.
Assata’s Daughters (AD) is a queer Black woman-led and youth-focused organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition. AD organizes young Black people in Chicago by providing them with political education, leadership development, and revolutionary services.
Assata’s Daughters (“AD”) first formed in 2015 as a volunteer-based collective of Black women, femmes, and gender non-conforming people, to address a shortage of programming and community for women-identified, femme, and gender non-conforming young Black people in Chicago.
Jul 15, 2022 · Assata Shakur and her daughter Kakuya in Cuba – photo via artist, librarian, healer Ola Ronke’s social media. By 1969, the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program.
Assata's Daughters is an American black power organization of young radical African-American women and girls in Chicago, which operates through a Black, queer, feminist lens, that focuses on political education, organizing, and revolutionary services.
