Happy Birthday, Assata Shakur: 79 Years Later, Her Legacy Still Calls Us To ‘Carry It On’
The committee is seeking artifacts and online submissions to build a permanent memorial that preserves Shakur’s legacy and nearly eight decades of activism.
- Today would have been Assata Shakur's 79th birthday, marked by the Assata Shakur Memorial Committee and her family launching a call for artifacts to establish the Assata Shakur Archives Project.
- The Archives Project emerges two months after the historic Carry It On Assata Shakur Memorial at New York City's Riverside Church on May 30, where 'Carry It On' became a mantra to keep pushing, remembering, preserving, and fighting.
- Assata Olugbala Shakur served as an activist, mother, grandmother, and member of the Black Panther Party, Republic of New Afrika, and Black Liberation Army, targeted by the U.S. government's illegal COINTELPRO before escaping prison on November 2, 1979, and receiving political asylum in Cuba.
- The Assata Shakur Memorial Committee stated the Archives is dedicated to gathering, preserving, and sharing digital and physical archives to create a living memorial documenting her life and legacy, with supporters joining via #AssataLives.
- Her legacy reminds us the work is not done, as Assata taught her people to refuse erasure and tell their own history—principles that affirm freedom, resistance, and justice continue through collective remembrance.
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zhiphopcleveland.comHappy Birthday, Assata Shakur: 79 Years Later, Her Legacy Still Calls Us To 'Carry It On'
Source: Newsday LLC / Getty Today would have been Assata Shakur’s 79th birthday. Although the legendary freedom fighter joined the ancestors on Sept. 25, 2025, her memory, legacy, and impact are still here to remind us that the work is not done and that we have so much more to accomplish. If you had been in the room at the Riverside Church in New York on May 30 as we celebrated the life of Assata the mother, Assata the grandmother, Assata the a…
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Happy Birthday, Assata Shakur: We Still Carry It On In Your Name
Source: Laylah Barrayn / Assata Shakur Archives Project Today would have been Assata Shakur’s 79th birthday. Although the legendary freedom fighter joined the ancestors on Sept. 25, 2025, her memory, legacy, and impact are still here to remind us that the work is not done and that we have so much more to accomplish. If you had been in the room at the Riverside Church in New York on May 30 as we celebrated the life of Assata the mother, Assata t…
Happy Birthday, Assata Shakur: 79 Years Later, Her Legacy Still Calls Us To ‘Carry It On’
Source: Newsday LLC / Getty Today would have been Assata Shakur’s 79th birthday. Although the legendary freedom fighter joined the ancestors on Sept. 25, 2025, her memory, legacy, and impact are still here to remind us that the work is not done and that we have so much more to accomplish. If you had been in the room at the Riverside Church in New York on May 30 as we celebrated the life of Assata the mother, Assata the grandmother, Assata the a…
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