Sister Assata Shakur transitioned to be with the ancestors on September 25th, 2025 in Cuba aged 78. In this episode we pay tribute to this giant of the African world and our guest is Ahjamu Umi - a dedicated activist/organizer/author who has engaged in on the ground work throughout Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and throughout the U.S. for 4 decades now. His latest work is "A Guide for Defense against White Supremacist, Patriarchal, and Fascist Violence" - it's a manifesto designed to provide guidance for how to organize neighborhoods on a block by block basis. He is also a longtime organizer with the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP). Ahjamu explains who sister Assata was/is, her coming to consciousness, her conflict with the injustice system of the US, her prison life and birth of her daughter while in prison, her unjust conviction in 1973 for allegedly killing a New Jersey state trooper, her 1979 political asylum in Cuba and Ahjamu’s visit with sister Assata in Cuba in 1994. Finally, Ahjamu states: “the revolution as an act of love” - commenting on Assata’s poem on Love in page 130 of her book (Assata: An Autobiography).

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains:...” - Assata Shakur

Find Ahjamu's blog where he writes extensively politics and economics at: https://www.abetterworld.me/blog and his weekly YouTube program - Our Ancestors Voices - at https://www.youtube.com/@umifam