The National Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party (NAABPP) cherishes and honors the life of Assata Shakur not as an icon, but as a mother, daughter, sista, friend and comrade, a human being. A line in a poem written by one of her BPP/BLA POW comrades, Albert Nuh Washington (RIP) says, “who I am depends upon who you are.” Well to those who know and Love Assata and the history/herstory of the Black Freedom Struggle, she is our 20th and 21st century Freedom Fighter Harriet Tubman. She shares a birthday with another Ancestral radically fierce Black womyn warrior, Ida B. Wells, a great journalist and anti-lynching champion, and we cherish the news that she was welcomed into the Ancestral realm on the same day our legendary Freedom Fighter Baba Herman Ferguson was 11 years before!
Assata will continue to live in the hearts, minds, Spirits and memories of her daughter, three grandchildren, numerous BPP/BLA comrades, extended political families and nations of Freedom-Loving people around the world so long as we speak her name, Assata Olugbala Shakur.
Long Live the Revolutionary Spirit of Assata Olugbala Shakur, Presente
Dare to Struggle! Dare to Win!
All Power to the People!
The National Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party (NAABPP)
