Sentenced to life in prison in connection with the May 1973 killing of white police officer Werner Foerster, political activist Assata Shakur escaped to Cuba in 1979, where she was granted political ...

Mark Wahlberg is the latest Hollywood star to play Donald E. Westlake's Parker, a high-stakes criminal with more friends than scruples. Needless to say, Westlake’s hardboiled anti-hero is as durable ...

Scientists have uncovered a dangerous hidden feature in Black Mamba venom that explains why antivenoms sometimes fail. The study revealed that several mamba species launch a dual neurological attack, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has ...

FILE — Joanne Chesimard, who used the name Assata Shakur and was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse, in New Brunswick, N.J., April 25, ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE — Joanne Chesimard, who used the name ...

WINSTON-SALEM, NC (Sept. 24, 2025) – Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) alumnus Stephen A. Smith, acclaimed ESPN commentator, journalist and author, will be inducted this weekend into the National ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S ...

The images, captured with the Event Horizon Telescope, show the magnetic field of the supermassive black hole M87* completely reversing. EHT Collaboration Observations of a supermassive black hole ...