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Happy birthday, Assata Shakur! (July 16, 1947)

An icon of anti-imperialist struggle, Assata Skakur was born in New York City and became aware at a young age of the prejudice and discrimination faced by Black people in the United States. She became a student activist in the 1960s, and soon learned that the forces of bourgeois law enforcement would not tolerate dissent from the status quo. Traveling to Oakland, she linked up with the Black Panther Party, helping organize community programs and protests. Dissatisfied with the direction of the BPP, she joined the Black Liberation Army, a more militant organization modeled after the Viet Cong and other armies of national liberation. Shakur and the BLA were quickly labeled terrorists, and she was imprisoned for several years for her activities. However, Shakur's comrades freed her from prison, and she fled into political exile in Cuba, where she remains today. She has published several writings including her autobiography Assata, which cover a variety of topics ranging from race to revolution.