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By Stephen Sorace , Andrew Murray | Fox News
July 15, 2021
The name of Assata Shakur, a woman convicted in the 1973 killing of a New Jersey state trooper, has been used by Black Lives Matter to illustrate what the group called Cuba’s“solidarity with oppressed peoples of African descent” as the communist country faced rare anti-government protests this summer.
As Cuba endured its worst economic crisis in decades amid food shortages and a resurgence of coronavirus cases, many called upon the U.S. to take action.