From Hip Hop Wired:

One of the boldest and most successful, though rarely publicized, reactions against oppression in recent times occurred a little over 3 decades ago when Tupac’s godmother – Queen Mother Assata Olugbala Shakur – was freed from being held captive in a United Snakes concentration camp, on November 2nd 1979.

During the earlier part of that decade, as an active member of the progressive Black Panther Party and its paramilitary arm – the B.L.A. (Black Liberation Army), the woman formerly known as JoAnn Byron-Chesimard, assisted in clothing, educational and food drives within many dilapidated communities, in efforts to help empower the everyday people.

As a result, she was targeted by the F.B.I.’s ‘COINTELPRO’ agenda and accused of committing a slew of violent acts, including… armed robbery, bank heist, kidnapping, attempted murder and murder. Shakur was tagged by investigators as being ‘the revolutionary mother hen’ and ‘the soul of the B.L.A.’; alleging that she was responsible for a ‘series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers’, which subjected the warrioress to a multi-state search for her capture.

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