Records
Assata Shakur on African Women [mp3]
Assata Shakur on the importance of Black women participating and leading the Black Liberation Struggle.
Assata Shakur on her core values [mp3]
Assata Shakur speaks on her core values (freedom and justice for all people) and the importance of African women participating in every aspect of the struggle.
Assata Shakur: Carry It On (The Tradition) [mp3]
The Tradition written by Assata Shakur.
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. S...
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur's 1987 autobiography (Lawrence Hill Books / Zed). Black Liberation Army member, former Black Panther Party member, convicted in 1977 of the May 2, 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike after a confrontation that left Assata wounded and fellow BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur dead. Sentenced to life in N...
Barbara Lubinski Reads What is Left [mp3]
Barbara Lubinki reads What is Left by Assata Shakur.
Free Assata Shakur
Defense flyer for Assata Shakur produced by the May 19th Communist Organization in the 1980s.
Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...
Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
2003 anthology (Rowman & Littlefield) edited by political philosopher Joy James. Collects essays, letters, and theoretical writings from incarcerated U.S. political prisoners across the Black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, American Indian Movement, white anti-imperialist, and Black-feminist generations — including Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Georg...
The Insurgent, Vol. 3 No. 2 (Fall 1987)
The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...
Why Assata Shakur Must Be Supported
BLA bulletin laying out the political case for supporting Assata Shakur and Sundiata Acoli.
Words from a Sister in Exile
When revolutionary political activist Assata Shakur (previously JoAnne Chesimard) made a daring escape from prison in 1979, she- like our fugative slave ancestors- became legendary in the Black community. Here she speaks about her life in Cuba today.