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  • 2018-09-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Colin Kaepernick Donate $25,000 to a Group Honoring Assata Shakur? (en)
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  • In September 2018 a pro-police web site reported that controversial former pro football quarterback Colin Kaepernick donated $25,000 to Assata's Daughters, a non-profit named after Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur: In 1977, Assata Shakur was convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster in 1973: During her trial, Shakur denied any involvement in either Foerster's death or the shooting of his fellow trooper, James Harper: Shakur was found guilty but escaped from prison in late 1979 and eventually made her way to Cuba, where she was granted political asylum and has lived ever since. Colin Kaepernick's donation to Assata's Daughters was part of a pledge the quarterback made in September 2016 to give a total of $1 million to charity. That donation was not recent news in September 2018, as it had been made more than a year earlier, in April 2017. Kaepernick's official website lists the donation and specifies what the funding was earmarked for: In May 2013, Shakur was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's list of most wanted terrorists under her birth name, Joanne Deborah Chesimard. As of September 2018 she is still on that FBI list. Assata's Daughters states on their website that the organization carries on the tradition of radical liberatory activism encompassed by Assata Shakur, adding that We grew out of a critical gap in Chicago of programming for young women to get trained up in the radical political tradition of Black feminism, and to learn how to organize around the demand of abolition. As part of their cop watch program, the group also offers recommendations for people seeking to record police encounters, advising that those who record such incidents should not interfere with officers as they perform their duties and should try to de-escalate the situation, not escalate it. Assata's Daughters did not respond to a request for comment for this article. (en)
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