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Word: shakur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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...frequently invoked to prosecute dissenters and radicals. Said Hills: "It's disgusting-a large lasso to bring in people for so many things." Five of the defendants remained in jail because other charges were pending against them, but the others-with the exception of eight-months-pregnant Afeni Shakur, who was out on bail-were released. Some had been held from time to time at Manhattan's Men's House of Detention, known as the Tombs. Said Alex McKiever, now 19: "I was 17 when I came to the Tombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: Panthers Acquitted | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

Cleaver's man in New York, Zayd Malik Shakur, promptly charged that Newton and his associate David Hilliard were behind the murder. "We have documented evidence," he said, "that these two madmen gave the orders to have Brother Robert Webb killed." Police have their doubts, but they suspect that the intraparty dispute is the key to the killing. They think the killers came from a dissident Panther group in Queens that remains loyal to Newton at a time when many of the New York Panthers are part of the Cleaver following. They also believe that Webb's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Destroying the Panther Myth | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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