Moments in Time with BLisB (B.lack L.ife is S.imply B.eautiful)

Assata deals with the murder of MLK, the beginning and end of her marriage, connecting with Native American ,Chicano and Asian comrades on a trip to California, and seriously contemplates joining the Black Panther party for Self Defense.

College days with Assata Shakur shed a whole new light on the world of education...

Assata Shakur-accused, charged and indicted on a variety of crimes but never a silent participant in the concerted effort to destroy her and control the narrtive surrounding her destruction. In this chapter she details a couple of court case victories. The devil is in the details (literally).

At the age of 17 Assata was finished with school (unofficially) and ready to make her own money and live her life on her own terms; figuring out what ‘on her own terms’ actually meant, turned out to be a real challenge though...

What happens when a political prisoner, specifically a member of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, goes into labor/gives birth?

Assata’s middle school years fully exposed her to the stark socioeconomic differences that exist (to this very day) along racial lines in America...

Assata shares the trials and tribulations of her impossibly possible pregnancy...

Assata provides a raw, unfiltered, retelling of her days as a naive young runaway in the dirtiest streets of New York City...

To Assata’s complete surprise, one of her many criminal trials begins and in the midst of it all she finds love and a lover...

Assata’s dangerous preteen search for identity in ‘the city that never sleeps’...