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The FBI has added the former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorist List 40 years after the killing for which she was convicted. Born Joanne Chesimard, Shakur was found guilty of shooting dead a New Jersey state trooper during a gun fight in 1973. Shakur has long proclaimed her innocence and accused federal authorities of political persecution. She escaped from prison in 1979 and received political asylum in Cuba. On Thursday, she became the first woman added to the FBI's terrorist list and the reward for her capture was doubled to $2 million. We begin our coverage by airing Shakur's reading of an open letter she wrote to Pope John Paul II during his trip to Cuba in 1998 after the FBI asked him to urge her extradition. "As a result of being targeted by [the FBI program] COINTELPRO, I was faced with the threat of prison, underground, exile or death," Shakur said at the time. "I am not the first, nor the last, person to be victimized by the New...

(1814? - December 13, 1875) He was an African-American  fugitive slave  from Virginia who escaped in 1850 and reached Boston. He is known for being freed from a courtroom in Boston after being captured by United States marshals under the  Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 . White and black members of the  Boston Vigilance Committee  freed and hid him, helping him get to Canada via the  Underground Railroad . Minkins settled in  Montreal  where he raised a family. Two men were prosecuted in Boston for helping free him, but they were acquitted by the jury. Minkins was born into slavery about 1814 in  Norfolk, Virginia .  He escaped from slavery as a young man in 1850 and reached  Boston, Massachusetts , where he became a waiter.   Later that year, Congress enacted the   Fugitive Slave Law , which allowed federal agents to seize escaped slaves living in   free states   and return them to their owners. It required la...