{"id":935,"date":"2025-09-27T23:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:49:41","slug":"assata-shakur-godmother-to-rapper-tupac-shakur-has-died-in-cuba-at-the-age-of-78-%f0%9f%92%94%f0%9f%95%8a%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Assata Shakur, godmother to rapper Tupac Shakur, has died in Cuba at the age of 78 \ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Assata Shakur<\/strong>\u00a0died on\u00a0September 25, 2025<\/strong>, in Havana, Cuba, at age 78.\u00a0Wikipedia<\/span>+5<\/span><\/span>Reuters<\/span>+5<\/span><\/span>AP News<\/span>+5<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The Cuban Foreign Ministry attributed her death to\u00a0health conditions and advanced age<\/strong>.\u00a0Wikipedia<\/span>+3<\/span><\/span>AP News<\/span>+3<\/span><\/span>The Guardian<\/span>+3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    She was born\u00a0JoAnne Deborah Byron<\/strong>\u00a0(later also known as Joanne Chesimard) on\u00a0July 16, 1947<\/strong>.\u00a0The Washington Post<\/span>+3<\/span><\/span>Wikipedia<\/span>+3<\/span><\/span>The Guardian<\/span>+3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    She had been living in exile in Cuba since her escape from a U.S. prison in 1979, and was granted political asylum there in 1984.Her life was deeply controversial and symbolic: some saw her as a freedom fighter and icon of Black resistance, others as a fugitive convicted of serious crimes. Her decades-long asylum in Cuba and her place on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted list made her case one of the most politically charged of the last half-century.\u00a0EL PA\u00cdS English<\/span>+5<\/span><\/span>Reuters<\/span>+5<\/span><\/span>AP News<\/span>+5<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    If you like, I can share more about her legacy, what people are saying in reaction, or how her passing could impact U.S.\u2013Cuba relations.<\/p>\n

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    That\u2019s very sad news. The reports say: Assata Shakur\u00a0died on\u00a0September 25, 2025, in Havana, Cuba, at age 78.\u00a0Wikipedia+5Reuters+5AP News+5 The Cuban Foreign Ministry attributed her death to\u00a0health conditions and advanced age.\u00a0Wikipedia+3AP News+3The Guardian+3 She was born\u00a0JoAnne Deborah Byron\u00a0(later also known as Joanne Chesimard) on\u00a0July 16, 1947.\u00a0The Washington Post+3Wikipedia+3The Guardian+3 She had been living in exile…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralitynews25.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}