James "Whitey" Bulger in 1995

[The Streets Don't Love You Back]

James "Whitey" Bulger in 1995.

Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, was a New York City newspaper headline staple in the 1970s. A former member of the Black Liberation Party and the Black Panthers, Shakur was convicted of multiple felonies, including armed robbery, attempted murder and murder for her involvement in a shootout with police. She was sprung from prison in 1979by sympathizers and has been living under political asylum in Cuba since 1984.

Shakur has been the subject of documentariesand made a hero by such hip hop stars as Common, Public Enemy, Mos Def and her stepnephew Tupac Shakur.

Joanne Chesimard, aka, Assata Shakur, leaves a Middlesex County Courthouse in New Jersey.THINK