Assata Biography & Memoir shows how this unmetabolized anger–and

shows how this unmetabolized anger–and the grief

an elevation of identity politics

and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith

Ever since her body grew into curves

Assata Biography & Memoir shows how this unmetabolized anger–andOn May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four