Sdit assata an autobiography
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Growing Up Panther: An Press conference With Ksisay Sadiki
“Kamau.” Picture by Sophie Dawson.
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–Assata Shakur, Assata: Set Autobiography
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An Amerikan family: the Shakurs and the nation they created
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