Overview
- The Cuban Foreign Ministry confirmed her September 25 death in Havana and cited health problems related to advanced age.
- Her daughter, Kakuya Shakur, posted that her mother died at about 1:15 p.m. local time and expressed public grief.
- Shakur was freed from a New Jersey prison in 1979 by Black Liberation Army members and received political asylum in Cuba in 1984.
- She was convicted in 1977 in connection with a 1973 New Jersey Turnpike shooting, maintained her innocence, and in 2013 became the first woman on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list with a $2 million reward.
- Reactions to her death split along familiar lines, with activist groups praising her influence and some U.S. officials condemning her legacy, including New Jersey’s governor signaling he would bar the return of her remains.