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I tracked down Tupac’s godmother Assata Shakur, the FBI’s most wanted in Cuba, as a CNN intern. It was surprisingly easy

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Personal essay by Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after arriving to Cuba, Assata Shakur was stopped by a policeman, not because she was a wanted fugitive and convicted cop killer in the United States but because she was Black. It was clearly a seminal moment for Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member (perhaps now

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I tracked down Tupac’s godmother Assata Shakur – the FBI’s most wanted in Cuba – as a CNN intern. It was easy

Patrick Oppmann was a 21-year-old college student doing a stint with CNN’s Havana bureau when he tasked himself with finding a woman who had evaded the long arm of American law enforcement for nearly 20 years.

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