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New Jersey Hopes Cuba-US Relations Thaw Will Help Extradite Former Black Panther

(The Guardian) – New Jersey officials hope the thaw in diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba will make it easier to extradite a former Black Panther Party member convicted of killing a state trooper in a controversial 40-year-old case. Joanne Chesimard, who changed her name to Assata Shakur, was convicted in the 1973 death of New […]