Introduction

Many black liberation activists and organizers have found their inspiration in the life and work of a sada shakur. Asata, shakur published her autobiography as a fugitive in cuba under the protection of fidel castro with a phalanx of federal, state and local us. Law enforcement in pursuit of her after success escape from the clinton correctional facility for women in new jersey eight years before the fbi place a million dollar bounty for her captured, dead or alive. We will find out in a few minutes when we have the return of historian donna mirch, author of asada taught me, state violence, racial capitalism and the movement for black lives.