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live in the United States where the law is far too often the crime.

This is how we find our inspirations in different events, in different people.

For instance, many Black Liberation Activists and Organizers have found their inspiration in the

life and work of Asada Shakur, a former rank and

foul member of the New York Black Panther Party in its militant offshoot, the

Black Liberation Army. As today's guest explains,

Asada Shoccur published her autobiography as a fugitive in Cuba

under the protection of Fidel Castro with a phalanx of federal, state, and

local U.S. law enforcement in pursuit of her after a successful escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility for

women in New Jersey eight years before the FBI place a million dollar bounty for her captured

dead or alive a figure with the state of New Jersey later doubled. So why would so

many today find inspiration in a sata who was convicted in the first-degree

murder of state trooper Werner Forster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.

And how does the history of the Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s inform

today's activists who are engaged in the struggle for black lives?

We will find out in a few minutes

when we have the return of historian Donna Merch, author of Asada, taught me

state violence, racial capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives.

Donna is an associate professor of history at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,

and sits on the Executive Council of the Rutgers American Association of University Professors

and the American Federation of Teachers. Donna is also author of Living for the City, Migration, Education,

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