Guilty of several crimes, she was sentenced for life, but escaped from prison in 1979. She was convicted in the murder of a police officer in a May 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike. She was a member of the Black Liberation Army in the 1970s, an extremist offshoot of the Black Panthers. Like Angela Davis, Shakur was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. We must love each other and support each other. The last line echoes the concluding words of Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto: The lead quote on the dedication page is from Assata Shakur, written as poetic verse. Even before the foreword from comrade Angela, Cullors’s book begins with Marxism. In fact, open that book - her 2017 memoirs, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, which includes a foreword by America’s most famous female Marxist, Angela Davis, a mentor and inspiration. Patrisse Cullors has been an open book when it comes to her life and beliefs.
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